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Re: [SCTP-Discussion] a doubt... about sctp network interface status


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  • From: Dino Korah <dckorah AT gmail.com>
  • To: discussion AT sctp.de
  • Subject: Re: [SCTP-Discussion] a doubt... about sctp network interface status
  • Date: Sat Oct 9 20:22:05 2004
  • List-id: SCTP Discussions <discussion.sctp.de>

Hi,

by programming interface what i meant was socket api itself... sorry
for the confusion (windows hangover). thanks for your ideas and help.
thanks a lot.

-- dino





On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 20:09:37 +0200, Thomas Dreibholz
<dreibh AT exp-math.uni-essen.de>
wrote:
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> Am Samstag, 9. Oktober 2004 19:51 schrieb Michael Tuexen:
> > Hi Dino,
> >
> > I do not understand exactly what you want to do and what the
> > Linux SCTP programming API is. I assume that you mean the
> > socket API. If you want to know the status of the interfaces
> > you can do this by using the socket API, you might want to
> > look at the gatherlocaladdresses function in adaptation.c
> > of the sctplib. If you want to know the status of the paths
> > of a particular SCTP association you can do this also with
> > a socket option or by simply subscribing to the relevant
> > notifications.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Michael
> >
> > On Oct 8, 2004, at 11:15 Uhr, Dino Korah wrote:
> > > Hi pals,
> > >
> > > Please lemme know any ideas about this......
> > >
> > > I would like to know whether there is any way by which I can use Linux
> > > SCTP programming interface to keep track of the network interfaces
> > > that are up and to know the heartbeat status (whether connectivity to)
> > > of the current SCTP associations. My idea is to find the interfaces
> > > that are available for various associations and show them in a
> > > monitoring tool.
>
> The SCTP socket API is described in this draft:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket-09.txt
> You can find out the status of the different SCTP paths used for an
> association, given by their transport addresses. If you want to map these
> paths to network interfaces (eth0, eth1, ppp0, lo, etc.), you have to obtain
> the interfaces' addresses from the kernel (like ifconfig, for example), and
> compare them to the SCTP paths' addresses.
>
> Best regards
> - --
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