Re: SCTP? YES!
Re: SCTP? YES!
- Subject: Re: SCTP? YES!
- From: Nathan Duran <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:00:12 -0700
On May 29, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Andreas Fink wrote:
1st. companies producing devices have heard of SCTP. Its just that
they take time to implement it and of course your customers have to
do flash upgrades and the like. On the other hand, those devices are
so cheap these days, that spending another 20$ for a "good" router
or WLAN access point is not the end of the world neither (if I count
how many WLAN routers I have at home, I still wonder how this pile
got so big. 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, 802.11n every step asked for
new access point).
This makes no sense as an argument, and only slightly more as a
personal anecdote. I cannot pay an extra $20 for SCTP support from any
router vendor that I'm aware of. In fact, making the jump from
consumer level hardware to the SOHO world of "good" routers will
usually run you in the neighborhood of $300-$500 more, plus hundreds
of dollars per year for "support subscriptions" that grant you the
ability to download bug-fix firmware updates. You will not see
commensurate increases in quality or support for such expenditures,
and you certainly won't see bleeding edge alterna-protocols from
outsourced engineers that still struggle to get TCP right.
I think the best approach in fact is to bypass NAT by the use of
IPv6 and use SCTP on top of that.
If that's really "the best approach" then I think the general
consensus on the topic is quite safe for the time being.
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