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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 |
| commit | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d /Documentation/networking/sctp.txt | |
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sctp.txt b/Documentation/networking/sctp.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0c790a76910e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/sctp.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Linux Kernel SCTP + +This is the current BETA release of the Linux Kernel SCTP reference +implementation. + +SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a IP based, message oriented, +reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for +transparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages. +RFC2960 defines the core protocol. The IETF SIGTRAN working group originally +developed the SCTP protocol and later handed the protocol over to the +Transport Area (TSVWG) working group for the continued evolvement of SCTP as a +general purpose transport. + +See the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org) for further documents on SCTP. +See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt + +The initial project goal is to create an Linux kernel reference implementation +of SCTP that is RFC 2960 compliant and provides an programming interface +referred to as the UDP-style API of the Sockets Extensions for SCTP, as +proposed in IETF Internet-Drafts. + + +Caveats: + +-lksctp can be built as statically or as a module. However, be aware that +module removal of lksctp is not yet a safe activity. + +-There is tentative support for IPv6, but most work has gone towards +implementation and testing lksctp on IPv4. + + +For more information, please visit the lksctp project website: + http://www.sf.net/projects/lksctp + +Or contact the lksctp developers through the mailing list: + <lksctp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> + + |