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From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 14:09:16 +0000
Subject: Re: retrans path update problem
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Gui Jianfeng wrote:
> hello everybody,
> When updating retrans path(asoc->peer.retran_path), should 
> we update the retran path to another transport even if only the 
> original retrans path is active?
> In the other words, i think, retrans path should always be 
> changed if there are more than one transport in an association.
> 
> Am i right?

And we do that with sctp_assoc_update_retran_path().  If we
don't find another active transport, we'll still try set the
retran_path to the next transport in the list.

Are you asking if we should only use ACTIVE transports?

-vlad