From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Yongjun Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v6 1/5] sctp: Add Auto-ASCONF support Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:30:13 +0800 Message-ID: <4DB65865.8040201@cn.fujitsu.com> References: <5D4D424A-5545-44C4-909A-4DDE594BD5D4@sfc.wide.ad.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net To: Michio Honda Return-path: Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([222.73.24.84]:65005 "EHLO song.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752531Ab1DZFa2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:30:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5D4D424A-5545-44C4-909A-4DDE594BD5D4@sfc.wide.ad.jp> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > SCTP reconfigure the IP addresses in the association by using ASCONF chunks as mentioned in RFC5061. > For example, we can start to use the newly configured IP address in the existing association. > ASCONF operation is invoked in two ways: > First is done by the application to call sctp_bindx() system call. > Second is automatic operation in the SCTP stack with address events in the host computer (called auto_asconf) . > The former is already implemented, and this patch implement the latter. > > Signed-off-by: Michio Honda > Acked-by: Wei Yongjun