A query regarding interop between BSD SCTP and lksctp

[sazzadur rahman]

You are right. Fedora 5 implementation (kernel 2.6.9) doesn't have SCTP AUTH
chunk. We upgrade the linux kernel (2.6.25.4)  which has SCTP AUTH chunk and
ASCONF works fine with FreeBSD 7.0 SCTP.

Thanks for the help!
Sazzad.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Peter Lei <peter.lei at ieee.org> wrote:

> Can you verify that the version of the stack in Fedora 5 implements
> the SCTP AUTH chunk?  The FreeBSD stack will silently discard the
> ADD-IP chunk if it's not wrapped with an AUTH chunk as per the RFC.
>
> --peter
>
> sazzadur rahman wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> We are using SCTP client on Linux (Fedora 5) and SCTP server on FreeBSD
>> 7.0.
>> Client-Server communication works fine. However, when we send ASCONF
>> (ADD_IP) from Client to the server, it seems that FreeBSD does not respond
>> with ASCONF_ACK to the Client. Is there any interop issue between BSD SCTP
>> and lksctp?
>>
>> Please let us know if you have any questions.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Md Sazzadur Rahman
>> Graduate Student,
>> School of Computer Science,
>> University of Oklahoma,
>> Norman, Oklahoma, USA
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