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34.Dd June 19, 2007
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 sd" "struct sockaddr *addrs" "int addrcnt" "sctp_assoc_t *id"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Fn sctp_connectx
51call attempts to initiate an association to a peer SCTP
52endpoint.
53The call operates similarly to
54.Fn connect
55but it also provides the ability to specify multiple destination
56addresses for the peer.
57This allows a fault tolerant method
58of initiating an association.
59When one of the peers addresses
60is unreachable, the subsequent listed addresses will also be used
61to set up the association with the peer.
62.Pp
63The user also needs to consider that any address listed in an
64.Fn sctp_connectx
65call is also considered "confirmed".
66A confirmed address is one in
67which the SCTP transport will trust is a part of the association
68and it will not send a confirmation heartbeat to it with
69a random nonce.
70.Pp
71If the peer SCTP stack does not list one or more of
72the provided addresses in its response message then
73the extra addresses sent in the
74.Fn sctp_connectx
75call will be silently discarded from the association.
76On
77successful completion the provided
78.Fa id
79will be
80filled in with the association identification of the newly
81forming association.
82.Sh RETURN VALUES
83The call returns 0 on success and -1 upon failure.
84.Sh ERRORS
85The
86.Fn sctp_connectx
87function can return the following errors:
88.Bl -tag -width Er
89.It Bq Er EINVAL
90An address listed has an invalid family or no
91addresses were provided.
92.It Bq Er E2BIG
93The size of the address list exceeds the amount of
94data provided.
95.It Bq Er EBADF
96The argument
97.Fa s
98is not a valid descriptor.
99.It Bq Er ENOTSOCK
100The argument
101.Fa s
102is not a socket.
103.El
104.Sh SEE ALSO
105.Xr connect 2 ,
106.Xr sctp 4
107