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1 | .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 |
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3 | ================= | |
4 | Linux Kernel SCTP | |
5 | ================= | |
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7 | This is the current BETA release of the Linux Kernel SCTP reference | |
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10 | SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a IP based, message oriented, | |
11 | reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for | |
12 | transparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages. | |
13 | RFC2960 defines the core protocol. The IETF SIGTRAN working group originally | |
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14 | developed the SCTP protocol and later handed the protocol over to the |
15 | Transport Area (TSVWG) working group for the continued evolvement of SCTP as a | |
16 | general purpose transport. | |
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18 | See the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org) for further documents on SCTP. |
19 | See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt | |
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21 | The initial project goal is to create an Linux kernel reference implementation | |
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22 | of SCTP that is RFC 2960 compliant and provides an programming interface |
23 | referred to as the UDP-style API of the Sockets Extensions for SCTP, as | |
24 | proposed in IETF Internet-Drafts. | |
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26 | Caveats |
27 | ======= | |
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29 | - lksctp can be built as statically or as a module. However, be aware that |
30 | module removal of lksctp is not yet a safe activity. | |
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32 | - There is tentative support for IPv6, but most work has gone towards |
33 | implementation and testing lksctp on IPv4. | |
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36 | For more information, please visit the lksctp project website: | |
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38 | http://www.sf.net/projects/lksctp |
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40 | Or contact the lksctp developers through the mailing list: | |
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91705c61 | 42 | <linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org> |