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Date:      Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:52:42 +0100
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Michael_T=FCxen?= <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>
To:        Schoch Christian <e0326715@student.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [SCTP] transport address unconfirmed instead of inactive
Message-ID:  <67A34C76-01BD-4C5D-B0C9-B2942744B5DD@lurchi.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <20110117081122.65833sa4wsdugdqy@webmail.tuwien.ac.at>
References:  <20110117081122.65833sa4wsdugdqy@webmail.tuwien.ac.at>

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On Jan 17, 2011, at 8:11 AM, Schoch Christian wrote:

> I did some test with multihoming and failover. My problem is that if one transport failes it never comes back to active (no heartbeats are sent any more).
> 
> My setup:
> 
> FreeBSD 8.1          Linux 2.6.36
> 172.16.1.4 --------- 172.16.1.3
> 172.17.1.4 --------- 172.17.1.3
> 
> Packets from 16.1.4 to 17.1.3 and 17.1.4 to 16.1.3 are dropped.
> 
> The transfer starts with 172.16.1.4 to 16.1.3 which is working as expected.
Which side is the client, which one is the server? Which side is sending user
data?
> If the transfer on this transport failes, it is switching to 17.1.4 & 17.1.3 as expected. 
How do you fail the connection? Disconnecting the cable? Configuring dummynet?
> 172.16.1.4 gets SCTP_UNCONFIRMED, 172.16.1.3 gets SCTP_INACTIVE
So you mean on the FreeBSD machine you get a SCTP_UNCONFIRMED? For which address? 172.16.1.3?
> Now, if the first connection is available again, the first transport address of FreeBSD stays at unconfirmed with no HB sent to 16.1.3
> Linux sends HB from 16.1.3 to 16.1.4 with ACK coming back from 17.1.4 to 16.1.3 (which is dropped).
> 
> So why are HBs sent from new primary instead of received address ? As specified in RFC it should sent back from address, it receives the HB packet.
Correct. Somethings seems strange. Please answer the above and I will try to reproduce
the problem.

Thanks for the report.
Best regards
Michael
> 
> Regards,
> Christian
> 
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