Re: SCTP, DCCP and MobileIP

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> sctp isn't really that nice a protocol.  [...]

Yeah, I read the spec.

> You'd probably get better throughput by using multiple TCP
> connections and relying on the application level retries to recover
> from packets that are lost when a connection fails.

...plus UDP for a few other things (unreliable packets and heartbeats
come to mind).  You'd also have to rework the userland layers to impose
their own packetization on TCP, that being another thing SCTP offers.

That is certainly arguable, but it wouldn't then interoperate with the
existing SCTP-using code (currently running on Linux).

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