SCTP is in the Tree :-)

Eric L. Chen d9364104 at mail.nchu.edu.tw
Thu Nov 9 10:52:58 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 22:36 +0100, 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?
> 
Yeah! SCTP is very important for Telecom Applications.
The SIGTRAN  is based on SCTP. Now FreeBSD can deploy to Telco!!
/Eric



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