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Re: [SCTP-Discussion] Question about Ports negotiation with SCTP


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  • 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:

> Hi all,
>
> First of all, I apologise for my question that may appear obvious to the
> SCTP experts.
>
> We are evaluating migration from TCP to SCTP in our embedded system based
> on a Client/Server architecture.
>
> Reading the RFC 2960 and several tutorials seems that, in order to
> establish an association between two endpoints, the SCTP port number of
> the Server must be known by the Client when initiates the association and
> never changes.
>
> On the contrary, TCP protocol requires a Server pre-defined port number
> only during the association phase and allows to negotiate the Server
> "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

>
> The question is : Is something similar to the TCP behaviour possible with
> SCTP ?
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Natalino Biundo
> Marconi Mobile S.p.A
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