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Re: [SCTP-Discussion] Query regading Inbound and Outbound streams in SCTP


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  • From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock AT openss7.org>
  • To: rohit agrawal <agrawal_rohit1 AT yahoo.co.in>
  • Cc: sctp <discussion AT sctp.de>
  • Subject: Re: [SCTP-Discussion] Query regading Inbound and Outbound streams in SCTP
  • Date: Tue May 23 10:12:03 2006
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rohit,

See RFC 3286 Section 3 for the answer to (1).

--brian


On Tue, 23 May 2006, rohit agrawal wrote:

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> Hi All,
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> SCTP specifies that during association start up itself the endpoints
> can specify the number of inbound and outbound streams. My first
> question is:
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> 1 why is there a necesscity for having multiple streams within a
> single association? Doesn't data transfer over single stream suffice
> on either side.
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> 2. During association start up if endpoint has specified 'm' outbound
> and 'n' streams, is it possible that endpoint can put some message on
> stream 1 and another message on stream 2 through socketsapi ?
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> Even if the above thing is possible how does it matter to application
> whether the application is coming from stream 1 or stream 2.
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> I am somewhat confused with the concept of "number" of inbound and
> outbound streams over a SCTP association.
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> I would be thankful if someone could throw light on the above
> questions
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> Regards
>
> Rohit Agrawal
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