Re: SCTP heartbeat timeout

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]>
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David,

That is almost normal behaviour when parameters are set to the
recommended values of RFC 4460.  (It should take about 10 minutes.)

You could try reducing the heartbeat interval and RTO.Max to reduce
the overall time or use an application timer.

--brian

David Laight wrote:                                         (Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:09:18)
> 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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