On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Jeroen Massar wrote: > I see a possibility of speeding up SCTP deployment by using semi-NAT, > what about PT, Protocol-Translation, this could be accomplished using > a BIA (Bump In the API) approach. > > Scenario: Clients connects to server. > Client's TCP/SCTP stack sees a connect() using TCP, it changes the > protocol field to SCTP and just tries to connect(), if it fails it > uses the normal TCP protocol. > > Server starts to listen on TCP. It checks to see if the same port > for SCTP is already in use, if not, it also binds to SCTP. > > Thus any client will also try to use sctp and any servercode will > automatically bind to SCTP, voila free multihoming code. > Putting this in the defacto Linux kernel will instantaniously have > a major deployment as generally people who keep up with new kernels > also enable the new toys in those kernels. > > Or did someone already draft or even implement this? :) I have thought about this idea many times, but didn't really have feel of feasible it is. ~armando 0-- --0 | Armando L. Caro Jr. | Protocol Engineering Lab | | www.armandocaro.net | University of Delaware | 0-- --0