On 09/11/2014 02:03 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boiteux Frederic" <fboiteux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <linux-sctp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:30 AM > Subject: RE: How to know retransmissions done by SCTP protocol ? > > >> Thanks Vlad for your quick and helpful answer :-) >> >> I missed this SCTP_GET_ASSOC_STATS socket option as I mainly used RFC (like >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket-32) to learn socket options... >> >> Fred. >> > > Now is this option in a linux package called lksctp do you happen to know? Yes, I think this option is available through lksctp-devel or lksctp-tools-devel package. It should be also available from the linux kernel headers that are exposed to user space. I has been supported by linux kernels since version 3.8. > I haven't > used it but I am interested in BSD scoket programming. Isn't sctp at the udp and tcp > layer? Yes, it's a transport protocol. > This would be (sctp) what you would use to use the avi and rtp procotols packets > with right? Don't know if those are good fits, but you could certainly try. SCTP was developed initially to support SS7 over IP, but has morphed into a rather generic transport protocol that you could do almost anything with. It has it's won quirks though so understand the protocol and what it offers. -vlad > > Bill > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
