Re: Should ABORT chunks be sent when SCTP endpoint is destroyed?

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sigtran
Organization http://www.openss7.org/
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Shmelev,

Shmelev Kirill wrote:                         (Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:54:53)
> 
> Hi, experts!
> Please, help me with understanding of one important aspect of SCTP
> functionality.
> When user decides to destroy an SCTP endpoint, it sends ULP primitive
> DESTROY. Upon recieving of this primitive, SCTP should simply destroy
> concerned endpoint (according to RFC 4960, ch. 10.1, letter P).
> The question is - should the associations used by this endpoint be
> terminated also? More precisely - should SCTP send ABORT chunks when SCTP
> endpoint is being destroyed?

It does not really mattter.  When the TCB is destroyed, the local SCTP will
respond to all peer messages for that association with an ABORT.  Whether
an ABORT is sent coincident with destroying the TCB is implementation
dependent (I do).

--brian

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