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34.Dd December 15, 2006
35.Dt SCTP_CONNECTX 3
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm sctp_connectx
39.Nd connect an sctp socket with multiple destination addresses.
40.Sh LIBRARY
41.Lb libc
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.In sys/types.h
44.In sys/socket.h
45.In netinet/sctp.h
46.Ft int
47.Fn sctp_connectx "int s" "struct sockaddr *" "int addrcnt"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Fn sctp_connectx
51call attempts to initiate an association to a peer SCTP
52endpoint. The call operates similarly to
53.Fn connect
54but it also provides the ability to specify multiple destination
55addresses for the peer. This allows a fault tolerant method
56of initiating an association. When one of the peers addresses
57is unreachable, the subsequent listed addresses will also be used
58to setup the association with the peer.
59.Pp
60The user also needs to consider that any address listed in an
61.Fn sctp_connectx
62call is also consider "confirmed".
63A confirmed address is one in
64which the SCTP transport will trust is a part of the association
65and it will not send a confirmation heartbeat to it with
66a random nonce.
67.Pp
68If the peer SCTP stack does not list one or more of
69the provided addresses in its response message then
70the extra addresses sent in the
71.Fn sctp_connectx
72call will be silently discarded from the association.
73.Sh RETURN VALUES
74The call returns 0 on success and -1 upon failure.
75.Sh ERRORS
76The
77.Fn sctp_connectx
78can return the following errors.
79.Bl -tag -width Er
80.It Bq Er EINVAL
81An address listed has an invalid family or no
82addresses were provided.
83.It Bq Er E2BIG
84The size of the address list exceeds the amount of
85data provided.
86.It Bq Er EBADF
87The argument
88.Fa s
89is not a valid descriptor.
90.It Bq Er ENOTSOCK
91The argument
92.Fa s
93is not a socket.
94.El
95.Sh SEE ALSO
96.Xr sctp 4 ,
97.Xr connect 2 ,
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