Linux Kernel SCTP

This is the current BETA release of the Linux Kernel SCTP referenceimplementation.

SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a IP based, message oriented,reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support fortransparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages.RFC2960 defines the core protocol. The IETF SIGTRAN working group originallydeveloped the SCTP protocol and later handed the protocol over to theTransport Area (TSVWG) working group for the continued evolvement of SCTP as ageneral purpose transport.

See the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org) for further documents on SCTP.Seehttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt

The initial project goal is to create an Linux kernel reference implementationof SCTP that is RFC 2960 compliant and provides an programming interfacereferred to as the UDP-style API of the Sockets Extensions for SCTP, asproposed in IETF Internet-Drafts.

Caveats

  • lksctp can be built as statically or as a module. However, be aware thatmodule removal of lksctp is not yet a safe activity.
  • There is tentative support for IPv6, but most work has gone towardsimplementation and testing lksctp on IPv4.

For more information, please visit the lksctp project website:

Or contact the lksctp developers through the mailing list: