Re: SCTP failover

From: Armando L. Caro, Jr. <me@armandocaro.net>
Date: Fri Feb 11 2005 - 15:24:33 EST

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) ('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, David Lehmann wrote:

> > Nope. When the error count is greater than 0 on the
> > primary destination, Ulticom uses an alternate destination,
> > until the error is cleared on the primary destination.
> > So, if the user is using the default values, the user
> > will only see a blip for one second.
> > (...assuming an RTO of 1 second)
>
> I need to correct my former post. Assuming a steady flow
> of data chunks, the switch-over with Ulticom's stack will
> actually be in a fraction of a second since the FR will
> notice the problem long before the RTO.

Hmm... I think that is getting too aggressive. This behavior could
cause reordering and induce false fast retransmits. Why would you do that?

~armando

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