RE: SCTP failover

From: Ryan W Bickhart <bickhart@cis.udel.edu>
Date: Fri Feb 11 2005 - 15:53:22 EST

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) ('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:35 -0500, Anatoly Khusid wrote:
> >If you need faster failover, you could change the
> >Path.Max.Retrans setting to limit the number of consecutive timeouts
> >that will trigger the failover.
>
> If you modify SCTP provisioning to be something other than the proposed
> defaults, I thought this might cause significant performance impacts?

The defaults could reamin the same, but since the PMR setting is tunable
by the application, it can be adjusted according to the particular needs
and network situation where it is deployed. See:

7.1.13 Peer Address Parameters in
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket-09.txt

---Ryan
Received on Fri Feb 11 15:57:46 2005