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Multihomed Communication with SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)
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Multihomed Communication with SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)

by Victor C.M. Leung, Eduardo Parente Ribeiro, Alan Wagner, Janardhan Iyengar
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
241 pages
7h 14m
English
CRC Press
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2.3 Failover Thresholds
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Dormant State Behavior
As the nite state machine in Figure 2.17 shows, if a sender fails over to an alter-
nate destination that in turn fails, the sender will failover to yet another alternate
destination. If needed, the sender continues to failover to other alternate destinations
until all alternate destinations are exhausted. When all destinations have failed, the
association enters the dormant state (Stewart and Xie 2001) (not represented in Fig-
ure 2.17).
RFC2960 does not specify dormant state behavior. Implementationsare provided
the freedom of choosing what action a sender takes when all destinations fail. The as-
sociation leaves the dormant state when one of the destinations
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