From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:18:12 -0400 > Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>I've seen several attempts recently made to do quick failover of sctp >>transports >>by reducing various retransmit timers and counters. While its possible >>to >>implement a faster failover on multihomed sctp associations, its not >>particularly robust, in that it can lead to unneeded retransmits, as >>well as >>false connection failures due to intermittent latency on a network. >> >>Instead, lets implement the new ietf quick failover draft found here: >>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05 >> >>This will let the sctp stack identify transports that have had a small >>number of >>errors, and avoid using them quickly until their reliability can be >>re-established. I've tested this out on two virt guests connected via >>multiple >>isolated virt networks and believe its in compliance with the above >>draft and >>works well. >> >>Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ... > Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx> Applied, thanks everyone. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
