Removing T/TCP and replacing it with something simpler

[Randall Stewart]

Marco Molteni wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 Andre Oppermann <andre at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:33:17PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>>
>>>>Thus after the removal of T/TCP for the reasons above I want to
>>>>provide a work-alike replacement for T/TCP's functionality:
>>>
>>>I disagree. I think the time spent here would be better spent on
>>>working on an import of SCTP into the kernel, perhaps the KAME code
>>>base would be a good starting point.
>>
>>Is the SCTP in KAME complete and stable?  Are there any other (open
>>source) implementations of it?
> 
> 
> SCTP in KAME is complete, stable and fully supported.
> It is mainly developed by the SCTP RFC author, Randall Stewart.
> 
> A T/TCP alternative as you are describing sounds very
> similar to PR-SCTP (Partial Reliability SCTP). (Don't let the
> name fool you, please read the internet draft).


RFC3758 (its a proposed standard now.. not a draft.) :->

R

> There is at least another kernel-level open source implementation,
> for Linux, plus other user-level implementations.
> 
> marco


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