Dann Many thanks to yourself and Vlad Yasevich for your prompt answer and advice about where to get further information. I'll follow up on that. At least I know I'm heading in the right direction now.
Regards Karena Stannett Software Research Centre Athlone Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- From: dann frazier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 29/11/2007 16:03 To: Karena Stannett Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: SCTP implementation [Scanned] On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:21:42AM -0000, Karena Stannett wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping you can answer a question for me. I'm about to start some > comparison research on two transport protocols, SCTP and DCCP, which > means some network emulation. Lucky for me the open source community > is working on implementations of these protocols! From > http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:DCCP I believe DCCP is > implemented within the Linux kernel and from > http://lksctp.sourceforge.net/INSTALL I know I need a Linux > distribution with SCTP support. Both kernel and userspace support for SCTP are available in Debian 4.0 and later. Debian 4.0 is based on a 2.6.18 kernel, but a number of changesets have been backported from later kernels to increase stability. This is thanks to my coworker Vlad Yasevich, who is also the upstream SCTP maintainer for Linux. That said, I'm not an SCTP expert, so I don't know of a good resource for documentation. I'd suggest beginning with the documentation in the lksctp-tools and libsctp-dev packages, and using google from there. I know even less about DCCP, but there is at least kernel support for it available in Debian 4.0 ('etch') and later. -- dann frazier ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this email is confidential and is designated solely for the attention of the intended recipient(s). If you have received this email in error, please do not use or transmit it for any purpose but rather notify us immediately and delete all copies of this email from your computer system(s). Unless otherwise specifically agreed by our authorised representative, the views expressed in this email are those of the author only and shall not represent the view of or otherwise bind Athlone Institute of Technology. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or telephone 090 6471858. _____________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
