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Bug#194379: ITP: sctplib -- Userland implementation of the SCTP protocol (RFC 2960)



Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-23
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : sctplib
  Version         : 1.0.0-pre19-1
  Upstream Author : Thomas Dreibholz <dreibh@exp-math.uni-essen.de>
* URL             : http://tdrwww.exp-math.uni-essen.de/dreibholz/rserpool/
* License         : LGPL
  Description     : Userland implementation of the SCTP protocol (RFC 2960)

The sctplib library is a fairly complete prototype implementation of the
Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), a message-oriented reliable
transport protocol that supports multi-homing, and multiple message streams
multiplexed within an SCTP connection (also named association). SCTP is
described in RFC 2960, RFC 3309 and RFC 3286. This implementation is the
product of a cooperation between Siemens AG (ICN), Munich, Germany and the
Computer Networking Technology Group at the IEM of the University of Essen,
Germany. See http://www.sctp.de/ for details.
 
The API of the library was modeled after section 10 of RFC 2960, and most
parameters and functions should be self-explanatory to the user familiar with
this document. In addition to these interface functions between an Upper
Layer Protocol (ULP) and an SCTP instance, the library also provides a number
of helper functions that can be used to manage callback function routines to
make them execute at a certain point of time (i.e. timer-based) or open and
bind  UDP sockets on a configurable port, which may then be used for an
asynchronous interprocess communication.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux caribe 2.4.20 #8 Fri Dec 6 14:19:52 EST 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C




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