| .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 |
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| Linux Kernel SCTP |
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| This is the current BETA release of the Linux Kernel SCTP reference |
| implementation. |
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| SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a IP based, message oriented, |
| reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for |
| transparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages. |
| RFC2960 defines the core protocol. The IETF SIGTRAN working group originally |
| developed the SCTP protocol and later handed the protocol over to the |
| Transport Area (TSVWG) working group for the continued evolvement of SCTP as a |
| general purpose transport. |
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| See the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org) for further documents on SCTP. |
| See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt |
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| The initial project goal is to create an Linux kernel reference implementation |
| of SCTP that is RFC 2960 compliant and provides an programming interface |
| referred to as the UDP-style API of the Sockets Extensions for SCTP, as |
| proposed in IETF Internet-Drafts. |
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| Caveats |
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| - lksctp can be built as statically or as a module. However, be aware that |
| module removal of lksctp is not yet a safe activity. |
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| - There is tentative support for IPv6, but most work has gone towards |
| implementation and testing lksctp on IPv4. |
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| For more information, please visit the lksctp project website: |
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| http://www.sf.net/projects/lksctp |
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| Or contact the lksctp developers through the mailing list: |
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| <linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org> |
