Re: SCTP heartbeat timeout

Hi David,

it is within the spec to retransmit HB after RTO + HB.Interval
where RTO is doubled but within RTO.min and RTO.max.

What is the maximum number of retransmissions you use until
the assoc dies?

Best regards
Michael

On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:09 PM, David Laight wrote:

> SCTP uses a heartbeat message to detect failure of the peer system.
>
> When we test this with the SCTP code in linux 2.6 it takes 15-16
> minutes to report a failure on an idle connection.
>
> Is this the expected timeout, it seems a little long!
>
> I would have expected the code to try more aggressively to get
> a response once the original 30 second timer expires.
>
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