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^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 3) =================
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 4) Linux Kernel SCTP
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 5) =================
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 6)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 7) This is the current BETA release of the Linux Kernel SCTP reference
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 8) implementation.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 9)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 10) SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a IP based, message oriented,
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 11) reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 12) transparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 13) RFC2960 defines the core protocol. The IETF SIGTRAN working group originally
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 14) developed the SCTP protocol and later handed the protocol over to the
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 15) Transport Area (TSVWG) working group for the continued evolvement of SCTP as a
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 16) general purpose transport.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 17)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 18) See the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org) for further documents on SCTP.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 19) See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 20)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 21) The initial project goal is to create an Linux kernel reference implementation
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 22) of SCTP that is RFC 2960 compliant and provides an programming interface
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 23) referred to as the UDP-style API of the Sockets Extensions for SCTP, as
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 24) proposed in IETF Internet-Drafts.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 25)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 26) Caveats
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 27) =======
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 28)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 29) - lksctp can be built as statically or as a module. However, be aware that
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 30) module removal of lksctp is not yet a safe activity.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 31)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 32) - There is tentative support for IPv6, but most work has gone towards
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 33) implementation and testing lksctp on IPv4.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 34)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 35)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 36) For more information, please visit the lksctp project website:
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 37)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 38) http://www.sf.net/projects/lksctp
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 39)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 40) Or contact the lksctp developers through the mailing list:
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 41)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 42) <linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org>