On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Jeroen Massar wrote:
I see a possibility of speeding up SCTP deployment by using semi-NAT,
what about PT, Protocol-Translation, this could be accomplished using
a BIA (Bump In the API) approach.
Scenario: Clients connects to server.
Client's TCP/SCTP stack sees a connect() using TCP, it changes the
protocol field to SCTP and just tries to connect(), if it fails it
uses the normal TCP protocol.
Server starts to listen on TCP. It checks to see if the same port
for SCTP is already in use, if not, it also binds to SCTP.
Thus any client will also try to use sctp and any servercode will
automatically bind to SCTP, voila free multihoming code.
Putting this in the defacto Linux kernel will instantaniously have
a major deployment as generally people who keep up with new kernels
also enable the new toys in those kernels.
Or did someone already draft or even implement this? :)
I have thought about this idea many times, but didn't really have feel of
feasible it is.
~armando
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