Re: [openss7] SCTP_RTO Option

[Chuck Winters <cwinters@atl.lmco.com>]

Brian,
	I am definately interested in using all the options for testing
purposes.  I also added to the IPPROTO_SCTP enumeration.

Later,
Chuck
"Brian F. G. Bidulock" wrote:
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> Looks like the header files need cleaning up a bit.  You will find
> the socket options definitions and CMSG flags at the bottom of
> <net/sctp.h>.  What is really required is a <netinet/sctp.h> header
> file to be included by users which has only the appropriate declarations
> for sctp ala <netinet/tcp.h>.  Unfortunately this is not part of the
> kernel headers, but is part of the C-library headers and is difficult
> to release as a kernel patch.  I could provide a suitable <netinet/sctp.h>
> file that you could place in your standard include path if you are
> interested in using all of the features...
> 
> --Brian
> 
> Chuck Winters wrote:                            Thu, 24 May 2001 15:30:59
> >
> > Hello again,
> >       Is the socket control SCTP_RTO implemented yet?  I tried to compile a
> > program using SCTP_RTO to get and set the rto options, and the compiler
> > complained that SCTP_RTO was undefined.  I then did a grep for SCTP_RTO
> > in the include directory, and it only came up with a comment and the
> > NET_SCTP_RTO_* proc stuff.
> >       The other problem was that the struct sctp_rtoval was not declared.  I
> > went hunting, and found it in sctp.h.  When I included sctp.h, it was
> > showing that sctp.h had errors.  I searched around, and found that u32
> > was undefined outside the kernel.  I changed the u32's to __u32's in
> > sctp.h and everything worked fine.
> >       So, am I doing something wrong?  I wouldn't be surprised :-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chuck
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Distributed Processing Laboratory        | Phone:  856-338-3987
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