Re: TCP connection and "Host is down"

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 01:20:16PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
> >>>> Index: netinet/sctp_output.c
> >>>> [...]
> >>
> >>> looks good.  I bet that it will help 73% of the 0 people using SCTP,
> >>> [...]
> >>
> >> Now now.  I know people who work at a company whose principal product
> >> is layered atop SCTP.  They're currently using Linux (who isn't? grr),
> >> but if NetBSD doesn't have working SCTP, it can't ever have any users.
> >
> > Thanks for the data point.  I agree SCTP working is nicer, and meant
> > that absent anyone responding to a call for testing, the patch looks
> > like an improvement.
> 
> I couldn't see how to generate the EHOSTDOWN error for a period of time
> to be able to test the patch, it looks reasonable though.

I can do it in a Xen guest, by shutting down the bridge in the dom0.
I used this to test the tcp_output.c patch, but I don't know how to
set up a stcp connection

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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