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Does SCTP support association between public to private range IP address?

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I have one test case in which I have 2 interfaces on each machine (two hosts). One is working as server and one is as client.

If in server I make one interface as public (IP address 164.x.x.x) then the server sends reset to the client).

So question is does SCTP support association between public to private range IP address?

posted Jul 30, 2013 by Amit Parthsarthi

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SCTP will gladly use any available IP address in the establishment of an association. That said, you do need to take care that your firewalls aren't going to mess with those addresses. That is to say, if you have an address that is 'private' in the sense that it is behind a nat firewall, you will likely get a reset from the use of that address, because the peer will see connections from that address as coming from the public natted address, which was not in the association init chunk, hence the abort.

answer Jul 30, 2013 by Abhay Kulkarni
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