Re: IP aliases and SCTP network paths question

Michael Tuexen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sigtran
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Brian,
see my comments in-line.
Best regards
Michael

On Mar 3, 2006, at 21:48 Uhr, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:

> Mark,
>
> I use the destination address contained in the heartbeat info
> and ignore the source address for the BEAT ACK for most purposes.
> However, difficulties might ensue if the source address is not
> one that corresponds to at least some destination address in the
> association for the peer receiving the BEAT ACK.
Then it is an out of the blue packet... An ABORT might be sent.
>
> --brian
>
> Michael Tuexen wrote:                       (Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:25:04)
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I would consider the received HEARTBEAT-ACK as one for the path on
>> which the HEARTBEAT was
>> sent to...
>>
>> Best regards
>> Michael
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2006, at 16:18 Uhr, Davidson, Mark wrote:
>>
>>> When using an IP address alias on an interface, depending on the
>>> implementation, a heartbeat ack may be sent with an IP "from" address
>>> different than the one to which the heartbeat was sent (i.e. if the 
>>> IP
>>> layer is allowed to fill in the "from" address).  Should the receiver
>>> of the heartbeat ack treat a heartbeat ack with correct payload but
>>> unexpected "from" address as valid?
>>>  
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