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