| Linux Kernel SCTP | |
| This is the current BETA release of the Linux Kernel SCTP reference | |
| implementation. | |
| 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. | |
| See the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org) for further documents on SCTP. | |
| See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt | |
| 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. | |
| Caveats: | |
| -lksctp can be built as statically or as a module. However, be aware that | |
| module removal of lksctp is not yet a safe activity. | |
| -There is tentative support for IPv6, but most work has gone towards | |
| implementation and testing lksctp on IPv4. | |
| For more information, please visit the lksctp project website: | |
| http://www.sf.net/projects/lksctp | |
| Or contact the lksctp developers through the mailing list: | |
| <linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org> |