From: Vlad Yasevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri,  4 May 2007 16:44:18 -0400

> During the INIT/COOKIE-ACK collision cases, it's possible to get
> into a situation where the association id is not yet set at the time
> of the user event generation.  As a result, user events have an
> association id set to 0 which will confuse applications.
> 
> This happens if we hit case B of duplicate cookie processing.
> In the particular example found and provided by Oscar Isaula
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, flow looks like this:
> A                             B
> ---- INIT------->  (lost)
>           <---------INIT------
> ---- INIT-ACK--->
>           <------ Cookie ECHO
> 
> When the Cookie Echo is received, we end up trying to update the
> association that was created on A as a result of the (lost) INIT,
> but that association doesn't have the ID set yet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Applied, thanks for fixing this up.
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