On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:58:29AM -0700, Ned Freed wrote: > >Out of curiosity, doesn't SCTP have a bigger port space (or its > >moral equivalent)? If so, would that be a better option? > > I have in fact on several occasions proposed using SCTP as a transport for > various email services. I did so no so much to take advantage of the larger > port numbers, but because the multistream support SCTP provides could be > leveraged in several interesting ways. (In fact the multiplexing might > even lessen the need for so many connections.) Ehem, where is this larger port number? The port numbers I see in section 3.1 of RFC 2960 seem to be 16 bit. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder International University Bremen <http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/> P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf