NAME
sctp_connectx —
connect an SCTP socket with multiple
destination addresses
LIBRARY
library “libc”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/sctp.h>
int
sctp_connectx(int
sd, struct sockaddr
*addrs, int
addrcnt, sctp_assoc_t
*id);
DESCRIPTION
Thesctp_connectx()
call attempts to initiate an association to a peer SCTP endpoint. The call
operates similarly to
connect()
but it also provides the ability to specify multiple destination addresses for
the peer. This allows a fault tolerant method of initiating an association.
When one of the peers addresses is unreachable, the subsequent listed
addresses will also be used to set up the association with the peer.
The user also needs to consider that any
address listed in an
sctp_connectx()
call is also considered "confirmed". A confirmed address is one in
which the SCTP transport will trust is a part of the association and it will
not send a confirmation heartbeat to it with a random nonce.
If the peer SCTP stack does not list one or
more of the provided addresses in its response message then the extra
addresses sent in the
sctp_connectx()
call will be silently discarded from the association. On successful
completion the provided id will be filled in with the
association identification of the newly forming association.
RETURN VALUES
The call returns 0 on success and -1 upon failure.
ERRORS
The sctp_connectx() function can return
the following errors:
- [
EINVAL] - An address listed has an invalid family or no addresses were provided.
- [
E2BIG] - The size of the address list exceeds the amount of data provided.
- [
EBADF] - The argument s is not a valid descriptor.
- [
ENOTSOCK] - The argument s is not a socket.