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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 18:20:36 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 18:20:36 -0400 |
commit | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (patch) | |
tree | 0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d /Documentation/networking/sctp.txt |
Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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1 | Linux Kernel SCTP | ||
2 | |||
3 | This is the current BETA release of the Linux Kernel SCTP reference | ||
4 | implementation. | ||
5 | |||
6 | SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a IP based, message oriented, | ||
7 | reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for | ||
8 | transparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages. | ||
9 | RFC2960 defines the core protocol. The IETF SIGTRAN working group originally | ||
10 | developed the SCTP protocol and later handed the protocol over to the | ||
11 | Transport Area (TSVWG) working group for the continued evolvement of SCTP as a | ||
12 | general purpose transport. | ||
13 | |||
14 | See the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org) for further documents on SCTP. | ||
15 | See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt | ||
16 | |||
17 | The initial project goal is to create an Linux kernel reference implementation | ||
18 | of SCTP that is RFC 2960 compliant and provides an programming interface | ||
19 | referred to as the UDP-style API of the Sockets Extensions for SCTP, as | ||
20 | proposed in IETF Internet-Drafts. | ||
21 | |||
22 | |||
23 | Caveats: | ||
24 | |||
25 | -lksctp can be built as statically or as a module. However, be aware that | ||
26 | module removal of lksctp is not yet a safe activity. | ||
27 | |||
28 | -There is tentative support for IPv6, but most work has gone towards | ||
29 | implementation and testing lksctp on IPv4. | ||
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32 | For more information, please visit the lksctp project website: | ||
33 | http://www.sf.net/projects/lksctp | ||
34 | |||
35 | Or contact the lksctp developers through the mailing list: | ||
36 | <lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> | ||
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