From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
To: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Max.Init.Retransmits and ABORT response to INIT
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:07:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5637601E.4030606@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB3A_j95dYXpM9bd1vuSo-1mOjtpwauoxQCcBZLmpFywBmmPMA@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/30/2015 08:03 PM, Ian Coolidge wrote:
> Hello,
>
> With the Linux SCTP implementation, Max.Init.Retransmits is respected
> when INIT messages do not receive a response (ie, if SCTP host is
> unavailable). However, if a Linux SCTP host is accessible, but has no
> SCTP servers listening for incoming connections, it will quickly reply
> ABORT. This doesn't trigger the Max.Init.Retransmits logic, so,
> retries occur indefinitely.
>
> I looked through RFC 2960 for some guidance here. Both 3.3.7 and 4
> were unclear for how this should be handled. I suspect that these
> ABORT responses to INIT should count towards Max.Init.Retransmits.
>
> Is there any clarification that I haven't found?
>
> What do the SCTP experts think should happen here?
>
An ABORT should terminate the association thus stopping any further
INIT transmissions. Is that not happening?
-vlad
> Thanks
> Ian
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-31 0:03 Max.Init.Retransmits and ABORT response to INIT Ian Coolidge
2015-11-02 13:07 ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2015-11-05 23:54 ` Ian Coolidge
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