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30.Dd June 19, 2007
31.Dt SCTP_CONNECTX 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm sctp_connectx
35.Nd connect an SCTP socket with multiple destination addresses
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libc
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In sys/types.h
40.In sys/socket.h
41.In netinet/sctp.h
42.Ft int
43.Fn sctp_connectx "int sd" "struct sockaddr *addrs" "int addrcnt" "sctp_assoc_t *id"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Fn sctp_connectx
47call attempts to initiate an association to a peer SCTP
48endpoint.
49The call operates similarly to
50.Fn connect
51but it also provides the ability to specify multiple destination
52addresses for the peer.
53This allows a fault tolerant method
54of initiating an association.
55When one of the peers addresses
56is unreachable, the subsequent listed addresses will also be used
57to set up the association with the peer.
58.Pp
59The user also needs to consider that any address listed in an
60.Fn sctp_connectx
61call is also considered "confirmed".
62A confirmed address is one in
63which the SCTP transport will trust is a part of the association
64and it will not send a confirmation heartbeat to it with
65a random nonce.
66.Pp
67If the peer SCTP stack does not list one or more of
68the provided addresses in its response message then
69the extra addresses sent in the
70.Fn sctp_connectx
71call will be silently discarded from the association.
72On
73successful completion the provided
74.Fa id
75will be
76filled in with the association identification of the newly
77forming association.
78.Sh RETURN VALUES
79The call returns 0 on success and -1 upon failure.
80.Sh ERRORS
81The
82.Fn sctp_connectx
83function can return the following errors:
84.Bl -tag -width Er
85.It Bq Er EINVAL
86An address listed has an invalid family or no
87addresses were provided.
88.It Bq Er E2BIG
89The size of the address list exceeds the amount of
90data provided.
91.It Bq Er EBADF
92The argument
93.Fa s
94is not a valid descriptor.
95.It Bq Er ENOTSOCK
96The argument
97.Fa s
98is not a socket.
99.El
100.Sh SEE ALSO
101.Xr connect 2 ,
102.Xr sctp 4
103