Re: SO_REUSEADDR setsockopt() and SCTP

From: Brian F. G. Bidulock <bidulock@openss7.org>
Date: Mon Feb 14 2005 - 09:07:30 EST
('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) ('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Anatoly,

See also UNIX'98 XTI/TLI IP option T_IP_REUSEADDR (where it came from).

 T_IP_REUSEADDR
      Many TCP implementations do not allow the user to bind more than
      one transport endpoint to addresses with identical port numbers.
      If T_IP_REUSEADDR is set to T_YES this restriction is relaxed in
      the sense that it is now allowed to bind a transport endpoint to
      an address with a port number and an underspecified internet
      address ("wild card" address) and further endpoints to addresses
      with the same port number and (mutually exclusive) fully specified
      internet addresses.

That is more like:

  int val=1;
  ADDR1 = IN_ADDRANY, port 32
  ADDR2 = 192.168.0.1, port 32

  fd1=socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SCTP);
  setsockopt(fd1, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &val, sizeof(val));
  bind(fd1, &ADDR1, sizeof(ADDR1))
  fd2=socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SCTP);
  setsockopt(fd2, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &val, sizeof(val));
  bind(fd2, &ADDR2, sizeof(ADDR2)) <=== Succeeds

  fd1=socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SCTP);
  bind(fd1, &ADDR1, sizeof(ADDR1))
  fd2=socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SCTP);
  bind(fd2, &ADDR2, sizeof(ADDR2)) <=== Fails EADDRINUSE

Technically, following this older rule, the Solaris behavior may be
correct. Check the above with a wildcard and specific address on the
same port number on Solaris and see if it exhibits the above behavior.
It should, Solaris being originally SVR4.2 based can be expected to
follow the UNIX'98 behavior.
      
--brian

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:

> Anatoly,
>
> The socket option is protocol independent, but reuse of local
> addresses is not supported by all protocols. (e.g. under SCCP
> or X.25, a local address describes a complete connection unlike
> TCP or SCTP where it merely names a socket.)
>
> On Linux:
>
> ADDR = Some valid address to bind
> fd1 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
> bind(fd1, ADDR)
> fd2 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
> bind(fd2, ADDR) <=== Fails EADDRINUSE
>
> ADDR = Some valid address to bind
> fd1 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
> setsockopt(fd1, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR)
> bind(fd1, ADDR)
> fd2 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
> setsockopt(fd2, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR)
> bind(fd2, ADDR) <=== Succeeds
>
> For OpenSS7 SCTP (and LKSCTP I suppose):
>
> ADDR = Some valid address to bind
> fd1 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SCTP);
> bind(fd1, ADDR)
> fd2 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SCTP);
> bind(fd2, ADDR) <=== Fails EADDRINUSE
>
> ADDR = Some valid address to bind
> fd1 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SCTP);
> setsockopt(fd1, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR)
> bind(fd1, ADDR)
> fd2 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SCTP);
> setsockopt(fd2, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR)
> bind(fd2, ADDR) <=== Succeeds
>
> Which makes perfect sense and is consistent with POSIX.
>
> You will find the following true for Linux as well:
>
> ADDR = Some valid address to bind
> fd1 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
> setsockopt(fd1, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR);
> bind(fd1, ADDR);
> listen(fd1);
> fd2 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
> setsockopt(fd2, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR);
> bind(fd2, ADDR); <=== Fails EADDRINUSE
>
> Which makes less sense... I think this should actually succeed.
>
> Not having such a mechanism will make peer-to-peer protocols
> like M2PA quite difficult to implement in user space, and will
> go quite against the POSIX sockets model.
>
> --brian
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Anatoly Khusid wrote:
>
> > Brian,
> >
> > First you say that:
> > >SO_REUSEADDR is described by POSIX and is protocol independent.
> >
> > But then you quote POSIX, which says:
> >
> > "if this is supported by the protocol."
> >
> > So how can it be protocol independent? I agree with Randall that
> > SO_REUSEADDR does not make sense for SCTP.
> >
> > Anatoly
> >
> > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 6:48 PM
> > To: Anatoly Khusid
> > Cc: sctp-impl@external.cisco.com
> > Subject: Re: SO_REUSEADDR setsockopt() and SCTP
> >
> >
> > Anatoly,
> >
> > POSIX:
> >
> > SO_REUSEADDR
> > Specifies that the rules used in validating addresses supplied to
> > bind()
> > should allow reuse of local addresses, if this is supported by the
> > protocol.
> > This option takes an int value. This is a boolean option.
> >
> > SO_REUSEADDR is necessary to bind to a protocol address that is already
> > listening or connected (or in the case of TCP in timed wait as well).
> >
> > The former two are perfectly applicable to SCTP.
> >
> > --brian
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Anatoly Khusid wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > >SO_REUSEADDR is described by POSIX and is protocol independent.
> > >
> > > It works different on Linux SLES9 vs. Solaris when using SCTP sockets.
> > > I provided an example which illustrates the differences.
> > > This web site only explains how SO_REUSEADDR work with TCP.
> > > Is TCP TIME_WAIT equivalent to SCTP_SHUTDOWN_PENDING ?
> > >
> > >
> > > >You can use setsockopt() to set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option, which
> > > explicitly
> > > >allows a process to bind to a port which remains in TIME_WAIT (it still
> > > only
> > > >allows a single process to be bound to that port). This is the both the
> > > simplest
> > > >and the most effective option for reducing the "address already in use"
> > > error.
> > >
> > > http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/addrinuse.html
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Brian F. G. Bidulock [mailto:bidulock@openss7.org]
> > > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 5:04 PM
> > > To: Anatoly Khusid
> > > Cc: sctp-impl@external.cisco.com
> > > Subject: Re: SO_REUSEADDR setsockopt() and SCTP
> > >
> > >
> > > Anatoly,
> > >
> > > SO_REUSEADDR is described by POSIX and is protocol independent.
> > >
> > > --brian
> > >
> > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Anatoly Khusid wrote:
> > >
> > > > This question deals more with "SCTP Sockets API" draft. I have not seen
> > > any
> > > > explanation in this document regarding the usage of SO_REUSEADDR on SCTP
> > > > sockets.
> > > > The following code fails on Solaris 10:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ADDR = Some valid address to bind
> > > > fd1 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SCTP);
> > > > setsockopt(fd1, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR)
> > > > bind(fd1, ADDR)
> > > > fd2 = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SCTP);
> > > > setsockopt(fd2, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR)
> > > > bind(fd2, ADDR) <=== Fails with errno="Address in use"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > However, the above code works fine on Linux SLES9. Does it mean that
> > > Linux
> > > > has a bug, or this is something implementation dependent?
> > > > What is the right behavior for SO_REUSEADDR on SCTP sockets?
> > > > Do you think this should be explained/documented in "SCTP Sockets API"?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Anatoly Khusid
> > >
> > > --
> > > Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦
> > > bidulock@openss7.org ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦
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> > > ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦
> >
> > --
> > Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦
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> > http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦
> > ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦
> > ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦
>
> --
> Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦
> bidulock@openss7.org ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦
> http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦
> ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦
> ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦

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Brian F. G. Bidulock    ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦
bidulock@openss7.org    ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in  ¦
http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying  to adapt the  world  to himself. ¦
                        ¦ Therefore  all  progress  depends on the ¦
                        ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦
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