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1 | Linux Kernel SCTP |
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| 3 | This is the current BETA release of the Linux Kernel SCTP reference | |
| 4 | implementation. | |
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| 6 | SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a IP based, message oriented, | |
| 7 | reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for | |
| 8 | transparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages. | |
| 9 | RFC2960 defines the core protocol. The IETF SIGTRAN working group originally | |
| 10 | developed the SCTP protocol and later handed the protocol over to the | |
| 11 | Transport Area (TSVWG) working group for the continued evolvement of SCTP as a | |
| 12 | general purpose transport. | |
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| 14 | See the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org) for further documents on SCTP. | |
| 15 | See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt | |
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| 17 | The initial project goal is to create an Linux kernel reference implementation | |
| 18 | of SCTP that is RFC 2960 compliant and provides an programming interface | |
| 19 | referred to as the UDP-style API of the Sockets Extensions for SCTP, as | |
| 20 | proposed in IETF Internet-Drafts. | |
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22 | Caveats: |
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| 24 | -lksctp can be built as statically or as a module. However, be aware that | |
| 25 | module removal of lksctp is not yet a safe activity. | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | -There is tentative support for IPv6, but most work has gone towards | |
| 28 | implementation and testing lksctp on IPv4. | |
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| 31 | For more information, please visit the lksctp project website: | |
| 32 | http://www.sf.net/projects/lksctp | |
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| 34 | Or contact the lksctp developers through the mailing list: | |
| 91705c61 | 35 | <linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org> |