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Questions tagged [sctp]

For questions about Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), where it is a transport-layer protocol, serving in a similar role to the popular protocols TCP and UDP. It is standardized by IETF in RFC 4960.

It provides some of the same service features of both: it is message-oriented like UDP and ensures reliable, in-sequence transport of messages with congestion control like TCP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol

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When does SCTP timeout?

Assuming timers set like in the Linux implementation or as suggested in RFC4960: When does an idle SCTP association timeout, when the peer disappears? a) let’s assume HEARTBEAT is switched off for all destination addresses. I guess it never does,…
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Making TCP dump without packets loss

How to make a TCP dump where it is guaranteed that all the packets that really pass through the network are captured, and nothing is missed? Details: We have an issue with 3rd party vendor who provides a solution on top of SCTP stack, which he also…
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SCTP stability and performance?

Anyone out there using SCTP? Especially on Solaris and Linux? What are your experiences - is it ready for production?
Andy Faibishenko
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zfs send over an sctp connecion

I'm setting up a file server with zfs send (using zrep) to sync data to a slave. The idea being that I can manually failover to the slave if and when needed. The servers have multiple network interfaces and three are configured as a private…
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Solaris 10 invalid ARP requests from 0.0.0.0? Link up/down every hour or 2

The guys at the data center where I'm hosting a server running Solaris 10 are telling me that my server is making a lot of invalid arp requests. This is an example of a portion of what was sent to me from the logs (with Mac addresses and IP…
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iptables nat not work for sctp

i have a server in internal network and i want to access it from external. the network is like this: Server A (132.196.28.229) is in external network Server B (10.35.202.24) can access both network Server C (192.168.10.99) is in internal…
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Virtual network for reproducible tests

Im developing a software product that uses networking features like device bonding an multi-homing protocols. As with any protocol development, test-code needs to take latency, package-dropping etc. into account. I am therefore trying to create a…
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Nginx HTTP/SPDY over SCTP

I've ready a thread in russian Nginx maillist about implementing HTTP/SPDY over SCTP in future. I realize that SCTP is completely unusable for public service at the moment, but what changes should happen for SCTP to replace TCP for public web?
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Can Solaris filter SCTP heartbeat messages?

Does Solaris provide a tool for detecting and filtering SCTP Heartbeat chunks? flowadm can detect SCTP traffic but not specific types of SCTP packets. Is there anything else?
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SCTP message is not getting initiated

Trying to initiate the SCTP association, but no message is getting initiated. Checked in the redhat linux machine, couldn't see sctp. checksctp checksctp: Protocol not supported lsmod | grep sctp lksctp-tools-1.0.17-2.el7.x86_64 package is installed…
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how to check sctp port in windows command line?

I want to keep monitor a software using sctp port29169 on my windows machine. However, I tried "netstat -an" and it only shows me the TCP and UDP ports. Is there any way that I can check the sctp port 29169 status in command line in windows…
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