[erlang-questions] Diameter client issue

[Anders Svensson]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, S X <erlangprogram@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi, Rudolph & Anders,
>
> Not sure your problem is resolved or not.
>
> I was able to use the diameter sample code with the local/remote mode, i.e.
> Start a diameter server in an erts on a pc, and start a diameter client in
> an erts on another pc (I use virtual machines as pcs here). They can
> communicate different types of diameter messages without problems.
>
> However, when I try to use a diameter client (the sample code) from an erts
> to connect a diameter server which is not running within an erts (other
> diameter server not implemented in erlang). It doesn't work(can not build up
> a connection). I am not quite familiar with the detailed implementation of
> the erlang diameter library now. I am feeling that the erlang diameter
> relies on the erlang nodes, which means all the peers are built up only on
> the erts (distributed erlang runtimes). Does the erlang diameter only work
> within erlang environment? Or in order to talk to other diameter servers,

No, diameter has no idea how any peers it connects to are implemented.

> does it need to write another erlang client using some functions from the
> erlang diameter library, like encode/decode? The sample client code doesn't
> work in this situation.
>
> I am not sure my understanding above is correct or not. Can you provide some
> guidance?

Sure, if you provide me with an example of something that doesn't work
as expected.

Anders


> Thanks,
>
> Samuel
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Anders Svensson <anders.otp@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>>
>> One more time to the list ...
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Anders Svensson <anders.otp@REDACTED>
>> wrote:
>> > The problem looks to be that there's an {ssl, false} option being into
>> > diameter_tcp and then down to gen_tcp, which causes it to raise
>> > badarg. What OTP release is this? I can't say I recall the example
>> > code passing this tuple.
>> >
>> > /Anders, Erlang/OTP
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Rudolph van Graan <rvg.mailing@REDACTED>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Hi there,
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to start up the Erlang diameter demo application shipped
>> >> with
>> >> Erlang/OTP. The issue is that, no matter what format I try, I can't get
>> >> the
>> >> client to connect to a remote diameter server.
>> >>
>> >> In that example, I started the application as follows:
>> >>
>> >> 3>  diameter:start(), client:start().
>> >> ok
>> >>
>> >> 4> client:connect({tcp,{10,151,0,166},{10,249,20,174},3868}).
>> >> {ok,#Ref<0.0.0.643>}
>> >>
>> >> 7> client:call().
>> >> {error,no_connection}
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Here, my local IP address is {10,151,0,166} and the remote one is
>> >> {10,249,20,174}.
>> >>
>> >> TCP to the server is working:
>> >>
>> >> telnet 10.249.20.174 3868
>> >> Trying 10.249.20.174...
>> >> Connected to 10.249.20.174.
>> >> Escape character is '^]'.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I traced diameter_tcp and I can see that it is getting a badarg error
>> >> somewhere:
>> >>
>> >> (<0.114.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:start/3 -> {ok,<0.115.0>,
>> >>                                                    [{10,151,0,166}]}
>> >> (<0.116.0>) call
>> >>
>> >> diameter_tcp:handle_info({'DOWN',#Ref<0.0.0.924>,process,<0.115.0>,badarg},{monitor,<0.114.0>,<0.115.0>})
>> >> (<0.116.0>) call
>> >>
>> >> diameter_tcp:m({'DOWN',#Ref<0.0.0.924>,process,<0.115.0>,badarg},{monitor,<0.114.0>,<0.115.0>})
>> >> (<0.116.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:m/2 -> ok
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong? My feeling is that it
>> >> has to
>> >> do with the local ip address. I don't understand why I even need to
>> >> supply a
>> >> local IP address and the documentation isn't very clear.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Rudolph
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  Here is the trace:
>> >>
>> >> (<0.84.0>) call diameter_tcp:start_link({monitor,<0.114.0>,<0.115.0>})
>> >> (<0.116.0>) call diameter_tcp:init({monitor,<0.114.0>,<0.115.0>})
>> >> (<0.116.0>) call diameter_tcp:i({monitor,<0.114.0>,<0.115.0>})
>> >> (<0.116.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:i/1 ->
>> >> {monitor,<0.114.0>,<0.115.0>}
>> >> (<0.84.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:start_link/1 -> {ok,<0.116.0>}
>> >> (<0.115.0>) call diameter_tcp:ssl([{ssl,false},
>> >>  {ip,{10,151,0,166}},
>> >>  {raddr,{10,249,20,174}},
>> >>  {rport,3868},
>> >>  {reuseaddr,true}])
>> >> (<0.115.0>) call diameter_tcp:ssl_opts([])
>> >> (<0.115.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:ssl_opts/1 -> false
>> >> (<0.115.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:ssl/1 -> {false,
>> >>                                                  [{ssl,false},
>> >>                                                   {ip,{10,151,0,166}},
>> >>
>> >> {raddr,{10,249,20,174}},
>> >>                                                   {rport,3868},
>> >>                                                   {reuseaddr,true}]}
>> >> (<0.115.0>) call
>> >>
>> >> diameter_tcp:i(connect,#Ref<0.0.0.643>,gen_tcp,<0.114.0>,false,[{ssl,false},
>> >>  {ip,{10,151,0,166}},
>> >>  {raddr,{10,249,20,174}},
>> >>  {rport,3868},
>> >>  {reuseaddr,true}],[])
>> >> (<0.115.0>) call
>> >> diameter_tcp:i(connect,#Ref<0.0.0.643>,gen_tcp,<0.114.0>,[{ssl,false},
>> >>  {ip,{10,151,0,166}},
>> >>  {raddr,{10,249,20,174}},
>> >>  {rport,3868},
>> >>  {reuseaddr,true}],[])
>> >> (<0.115.0>) call diameter_tcp:get_addr([{ip,{10,151,0,166}}],[])
>> >> (<0.115.0>) call diameter_tcp:addr([{ip,{10,151,0,166}}],[])
>> >> (<0.115.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:addr/2 -> {10,151,0,166}
>> >> (<0.115.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:get_addr/2 -> {10,151,0,166}
>> >> (<0.115.0>) call diameter_tcp:get_addr([{raddr,{10,249,20,174}}],[])
>> >> (<0.115.0>) call diameter_tcp:addr([{raddr,{10,249,20,174}}],[])
>> >> (<0.115.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:addr/2 -> {10,249,20,174}
>> >> (<0.115.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:get_addr/2 -> {10,249,20,174}
>> >> (<0.115.0>) call diameter_tcp:get_port([{rport,3868}])
>> >> (<0.115.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:get_port/1 -> 3868
>> >> (<0.115.0>) call
>> >> diameter_tcp:gen_opts({10,151,0,166},[{ssl,false},{reuseaddr,true}])
>> >> (<0.115.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:gen_opts/2 -> [binary,
>> >>                                                       {packet,0},
>> >>                                                       {active,once},
>> >>
>> >> {ip,{10,151,0,166}},
>> >>                                                       {ssl,false},
>> >>                                                       {reuseaddr,true}]
>> >> (<0.82.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:start_link/1 -> {ok,<0.115.0>,
>> >>
>> >> [{10,151,0,166}]}
>> >> (<0.115.0>) call
>> >> diameter_tcp:connect(gen_tcp,{10,249,20,174},3868,[binary,
>> >>  {packet,0},
>> >>  {active,once},
>> >>  {ip,{10,151,0,166}},
>> >>  {ssl,false},
>> >>  {reuseaddr,true}])
>> >> (<0.114.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:start/3 -> {ok,<0.115.0>,
>> >>                                                    [{10,151,0,166}]}
>> >> (<0.116.0>) call
>> >>
>> >> diameter_tcp:handle_info({'DOWN',#Ref<0.0.0.924>,process,<0.115.0>,badarg},{monitor,<0.114.0>,<0.115.0>})
>> >> (<0.116.0>) call
>> >>
>> >> diameter_tcp:m({'DOWN',#Ref<0.0.0.924>,process,<0.115.0>,badarg},{monitor,<0.114.0>,<0.115.0>})
>> >> (<0.116.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:m/2 -> ok
>> >> (<0.116.0>) call
>> >> diameter_tcp:x({'DOWN',#Ref<0.0.0.924>,process,<0.115.0>,badarg})
>> >> (<0.116.0>) call
>> >>
>> >> diameter_tcp:terminate({shutdown,{'DOWN',#Ref<0.0.0.924>,process,<0.115.0>,badarg}},{monitor,<0.114.0>,<0.115.0>})
>> >> (<0.116.0>) returned from diameter_tcp:terminate/2 -> ok
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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