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-# $Id$
-
-This document provides general information about the SCTP protocol.
-
-
-Introduction
-=============
-SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a new transport layer protocol
-developed by the IETF and defined by RFC2960. Originally designed for the
-transmission of message-oriented applications such as the transportation of
-signaling data for PSTNs (Public Switched Telephone Networks), SCTP can be used
-in any application that uses TCP.
-
- Major Features
- --------------
-
- - Direct support for multi-homing
- - Support for multiple streams per connection (known as associations)
- to reduce "head of line" blocking problems.
- - Four way handshake reducing the possibility for blind denial of
- service attacks.
- - Adjustment of congestion control parameters
- - Cookie mechanism to protect against "SYN" attacks
-
-API's
-========
-
-The SCTP drafts have defined several different API's. The first reference
-implementation was a user level library. This allowed an application to use
-SCTP through several functions and callbacks. As of this writing a
-transition from the user level libraries to the kernel is underway.
-
-The IETF TSVWG (Transport Area Working Group) has published a draft
-(draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket-06.txt) that defines a mapping between SCTP and
-the BSD sockets interface. This interface has made porting TCP applications to
-SCTP as simple as changing one socket call.
-
- OpenSS7
- --------
- OpenSS7 has defined, a similar BSD style sockets interface. It is
- slightly different from the one defined by the IETF, however, at the
- time of our evaluation it was the most stable implementation.
-
- Please see README.OpenSS7 for details and build instructions.
-
- LKSCTP
- ------
- The LKSCTP implementation is based on the TSVWG's sockets draft.
- It is included with the Linux 2.6 series test kernels. Backported
- (Linux 2.4) patches are also available from the LKSCTP website.
-
- Please see README.LKSCTP for more details and build instructions.
-
-Resources
-===========
-
- RFCs
- -----
- RFC2960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
- RFC3309: Stream Control Transmission Protocol Checksum Change
-
- Internet-Drafts
- ----------------
-
- draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket-07.txt:
- Sockets API Extensions for Stream Control Transmission Protocol
-
- draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpimpguide-08.txt
- Stream Control Transmission Protocol Implementer's Guide
-
- Internet Links
- ---------------
- IETF: Transport Area Working Group (tsvwg):
- http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/tsvwg-charter.html
-
- The OpenSS7 Project: http://www.openss7.org/sctp.html
-
- The LKSCTP Project: http://lksctp.sourceforge.net/
-
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