[OpenSER-Users] Re: [OpenSER-Devel] SCTP support

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Dear Janardhan,

first I would like to thank you for assisting and helping with the SCTP 
implementation.

On 08/03/07 00:20, Janardhan Iyengar wrote:
> Dear Daniel,
>
> Thank you very much for integrating the code in. This is very good 
> news indeed!
>
> We will continue to test this code, and add more meaningful use of 
> SCTP's features as we do more work with it. Who should we consider our 
> point of contact? Is there one? Or should we just get in touch with 
> the list again?
the devel at openser.org mailing list is the place to discuss development 
issues. It is a list with fast feedback and nice results out of debates 
there. Patches should be registered on the tracker.

Your broad experience with SCTP will help a lot. I looked some time ago 
to SCTP but the lack of phones supporting the protocol discouraged me 
(of course, there is the chicken-egg situation: phone developers need a 
server, server developers need a client -- hope this is a good start 
point for more SCTP in VoIP). I like the SCTP because the resources used 
on server are similar as for UDP, on the other hand, it solves important 
issues as transmission reliability and fragmentation.

Another issue I see, an I do not know if applies, does NATs cope with 
SCTP? I haven't seen much SOHO routers advertising SCTP.

Another interesting topic would be TLS-SCTP, there is RFC, not time to 
study it yet, do you have any experience with it? As I got it from 
sip-implementors list, so far the SCTP was used mainly for trunking.

Cheers,
Daniel


>
> Thanks again!
> - jana
>