On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 12:08 PM, Jason House wrote:
I looked at the docs on www.sctp.de and downloaded the source, and the fatal flaw seems to be what I found in adaptation.c. It appears both the routing socket and the sctp socket are built on raw IP. At least on Linux, Darwin, and Windows NT/2000, you need root privileges to open one of these. Thus, the daemon to handle the protocol will have to be installed by and run as an administrator, and will therefore not be usable by many clients who do not control the machine they use.* How easy will support for SCTP be to work into the boost socket library? ... and how easy would the interface be to use?
I think a UDP-based implementation rather than a raw IP-based one would do as well (with some wasted overhead) and not need admin privileges or the cooperation of the operating system manufacturer to get installed. Does anyone know if there is a UDP-based implementation?
-- Brian
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