- 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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- List-id: SCTP Discussions <discussion.sctp.de>
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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
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can specify the number of inbound and outbound streams. My first
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question is:
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1 why is there a necesscity for having multiple streams within a
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single association? Doesn't data transfer over single stream suffice
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on either side.
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2. During association start up if endpoint has specified 'm' outbound
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and 'n' streams, is it possible that endpoint can put some message on
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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
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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
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outbound streams over a SCTP association.
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I would be thankful if someone could throw light on the above
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questions
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Regards
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Rohit Agrawal
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