SCTP Multihoming Heartbeat ACK Behavior

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lamborghinione

Hello everyone!

We are having some issues regarding SCTP multihoming and we would like to ask your opinion on this matter. We have two RHEL6.4 (2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64) machines connected by two L2 switch and a L3 switch (please see "Environment Setup" below). When we execute SCTP connection (using multihoming) between the two machines, the following behavior occurred:

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INIT-INIT_ACK, COOKIE_ECHO-COOKIE_ACK handshake occurred in the primary path of both machines which is expected. When a Primary path sends HEARTBEAT to another Primary, HEARTBEAT_ACK was returned to the sender. But when a Primary path sends HEARTBEAT to a Secondary path, the HEARTBEAT_ACK chunk was sent by the Primary path. We expect that the HEARTBEAT_ACK would come from the Secondary.

[Questions]
1. Is this a normal behavior with regards to SCTP multihoming?
2. Is the routing setup of the environment has something to do with this behavior? (please see "Route Setup" below)
3. Or the SCTP kernel module has something to do with this behavior?
4. Is there a solution to force Client to use its Secondary path in sending the HEARTBEAT_ACK chunk to Server's primary?

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Environment Setup:

Route Setup:

---------- CLIENT ----------
# ip rule show
0: from all lookup local
197: from all to 172.168.39.91 lookup rt2
198: from 172.168.39.91 lookup rt2
199: from all to 172.168.39.92 lookup rt3
200: from 172.168.39.92 lookup rt3
32766: from all lookup main
32767: from all lookup default

# ip route show table rt2
172.168.40.0/24 dev eth0 scope link src 172.168.39.91
172.168.39.0/24 dev eth0 scope link src 172.168.39.91

# ip route show table rt3
172.168.40.0/24 dev eth1 scope link src 172.168.39.92
172.168.39.0/24 dev eth1 scope link src 172.168.39.92

# ip route show table main
192.168.40.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.40.212

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.40.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1

---------- SERVER ----------
# ip rule show
0: from all lookup local
197: from all to 172.168.40.93 lookup rt2
198: from 172.168.40.93 lookup rt2
199: from all to 172.168.40.94 lookup rt3
200: from 172.168.40.94 lookup rt3
32766: from all lookup main
32767: from all lookup default

# ip route show table rt2
172.168.40.0/24 dev eth0 scope link src 172.168.40.93
172.168.39.0/24 dev eth0 scope link src 172.168.40.93

# ip route show table rt3
172.168.40.0/24 dev eth1 scope link src 172.168.40.94
172.168.39.0/24 dev eth1 scope link src 172.168.40.94

# ip route show table main
192.168.40.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.40.127

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.40.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1


We are hoping for your kind response and thank you in advance!

Wins
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