Re: SCTP is in the Tree :-)

Ivan Voras wrote:
> Randall Stewart wrote:
> 
> 
>>Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) - is a reliable message
>>oriented transport protocol which provides network fault tolerance
>>It supports multiple streams and multihoming. A very good overview
>>of the protocol is given in RFC 3268.
> 
> 
> Looks cool :)
> 
> It's under IP so it's routable, but I imagine it probably needs routers
> along the way to know about it in order to use the more advanced features?

Nope.. not at all..

The only issue is when you cross a firewall or NAT :-(

Note that I have heard that the latest FreeBSD IPv6 FW for
some reason drops SCTP packets even if you have typed in
allow ip from any to any...

Something about not liking protocol 132 in the extension
headers :(

R

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