- From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock AT openss7.org>
- To: Natalino Biundo <natalino.biundo AT marconi.com>
- Cc: discussion AT sctp.de
- Subject: Re: [SCTP-Discussion] Question about Ports negotiation with SCTP
- Date: Thu Apr 11 10:52:00 2002
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Natalino,
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Natalino Biundo wrote:
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Hi all,
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First of all, I apologise for my question that may appear obvious to the
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SCTP experts.
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We are evaluating migration from TCP to SCTP in our embedded system based
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on a Client/Server architecture.
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Reading the RFC 2960 and several tutorials seems that, in order to
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establish an association between two endpoints, the SCTP port number of
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the Server must be known by the Client when initiates the association and
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never changes.
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On the contrary, TCP protocol requires a Server pre-defined port number
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only during the association phase and allows to negotiate the Server
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"working" port number to be used during the "stable connection" phase.
Huh? I don't think so. Are you perhaps using RPC sockets rather than
TCP sockets?
--brian
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The question is : Is something similar to the TCP behaviour possible with
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SCTP ?
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Many thanks in advance
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Natalino Biundo
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Marconi Mobile S.p.A
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