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Re(4): [SCTP-Discussion] Strings vs. Sockunion (was: Is the timer_list initialised?)


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  • From: Michael Tüxen <Michael.Tuexen AT micmac.franken.de>
  • To: <discussion AT sctp.de>
  • Subject: Re(4): [SCTP-Discussion] Strings vs. Sockunion (was: Is the timer_list initialised?)
  • Date: Fri Apr 6 10:52:01 2001
  • List-id: SCTP Discussions <discussion.sctp.de>

Dear Marc,
we are providing sctp_socketCallback only for UDP handling. So are you
thinking about UDP or SCTP traffic?

Best regards
Michael

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On Fri, Apr 6, 2001, Marc Boucher
<marc+sctp AT mbsi.ca>
wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>Just to clarify;
>
>I am not really concerned about the form of addresses passed to
>seldomly called initialization or association establishment functions,
>such as sctp_registerInstance and sctp_associate.
>As it has been pointed out, this has obviously little or no impact on
>performance. My problem is with passing addresses as strings to
>sctp_socketCallback functions and doing conversions in dispatch_event().
>
>However, it would be nice to use a consistent form for both initialization
>and socketCallback functions, although it isn't technically required.
>
>Marc
>
>On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:39:29PM +0200, Michael Tüxen wrote:
>>
>> So coming back to the discussion, I think have two choices:
>>
>> 1. Using a sochunion-like structure and proving routines str2sockunion
>> and vice versa. Then for the function sctp_registerInstance and
>> sctp_associate you would call these funcitons and use the result in
>> these functions.
>>
>> 2. Using a string type and the functions sctp_registerInstance
>> and sctp_associate call these translation function themselves.
>>
>> >From a performance point of view I do not see a difference. But the
>> API for 2. is simpler: You need two functions in the API less and no
>sockunion
>> structure. This is the argument Wolfgang stated and which is valid, I
>> think. I especially do NOT see a performance difference!
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