Re: Adding SCTP support

Hi,

I've spoken to some SCTP related people about this before.
The trouble is:

* NOone's fleshed out how HTTP over SCTP should look;
* Noone's fleshed out how servers should choose HTTP over TCP vs SCTP.

They're the much more pressing questions.

Adrian

On Sat, May 31, 2008, Pranav Desai wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> What would you suggest should be the way to include SCTP support in Squid 3.0 ?
>
> My assumption here is that SCTP would be useful for clients (which
> support SCTP) connecting using slow/lossy wireless type networks. My
> goal is to experiment and compare the performance against TCP for
> wireless networks.
>
> So, I started with that and was easily able to add a config option for
> client-side and change the corresponding function
> clientHttpConnectionsOpen() to set appropriate protocol type and it
> worked just fine. But that would make it an SCTP only proxy.
>
> We could also open up another listening port for SCTP, so that we can
> have both SCTP and TCP simultaneously, where the origin server side
> will always be TCP.
>
> But I feel that I am missing something here. So, I would really
> appreciate any suggestions or comments you may have.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> -- Pranav

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