Re: Question on sctp state machine

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>>
>> Scenario:
>> Client initiates 4 way handshake completes it, sends some user data,
>> dies, reinitiates the 4 way handshake, completes sends some user data
>> dies. Repeat forever.
>> Server is running all through.
>>
> Are you forcing that connection failure?  Or is it happening on its own?  I'm
> trying to figure out where the ICMP proto unreachable messsages are originating
> from.  Its sort of an odd ICMP code to hit.
>
Yeah I am forcing the connection failure by killing the sctp. The
client is an eNB simulator (LTE base station) and has its own user
space sctp stack which we are killing.

>> In the attached pcap the third INIT gets an INIT ACK but the COOKIE
>> ECHO doesn't get a corresponding COOKIE_ACK response from the server.
>> The only thing I see here is that the initiate tag is the same between
>> the second and third run.
> That suggests to me that we're considering this an unexpected init, and
> processing it as such in sctp_sf_do_unexpected_init, by creating a new
> association and copying over the tags.  Then we handle the cookie in
> sctp_sf_do_5_2_4_dupcook and silently discard it for one of several reasons.
> I'd suggest writing a stap script to probe the return and error value of
> sctp_unpack_cookie to see how the last cookie is getting handled.

Great thanks for the pointer, will try it out.

>
> Neil
>
>
>> Please find the trace in the attached pcap. The post handshake
>> exchange can be ignored for the most part.
>>
>> vagrant@magma-dev:~$ uname -a
>> Linux magma-dev 4.9.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.2-2~bpo8+1
>> (2017-01-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Thanks
>> Amar
>
>
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