1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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3=================
4Linux Kernel SCTP
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6
7This is the current BETA release of the Linux Kernel SCTP reference
8implementation.
9
10SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a IP based, message oriented,
11reliable transport protocol, with congestion control, support for
12transparent multi-homing, and multiple ordered streams of messages.
13RFC2960 defines the core protocol.  The IETF SIGTRAN working group originally
14developed the SCTP protocol and later handed the protocol over to the
15Transport Area (TSVWG) working group for the continued evolvement of SCTP as a
16general purpose transport.
17
18See the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org) for further documents on SCTP.
19See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt
20
21The initial project goal is to create an Linux kernel reference implementation
22of SCTP that is RFC 2960 compliant and provides an programming interface
23referred to as the  UDP-style API of the Sockets Extensions for SCTP, as
24proposed in IETF Internet-Drafts.
25
26Caveats
27=======
28
29- lksctp can be built as statically or as a module.  However, be aware that
30  module removal of lksctp is not yet a safe activity.
31
32- There is tentative support for IPv6, but most work has gone towards
33  implementation and testing lksctp on IPv4.
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35
36For more information, please visit the lksctp project website:
37
38   http://www.sf.net/projects/lksctp
39
40Or contact the lksctp developers through the mailing list:
41
42   <linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org>
43