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Re:Why was SCTP selected for WebRTC’s data channel? (2014) by Sean-Der on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @05:34PM (#21880854)
Have you done SCTP over the public internet?

I haven't tried it myself, but always heard the only way to make it work was encapsulated in UDP.

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Re:Why was SCTP selected for WebRTC’s data channel? (2014) by gmueckl on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @08:34PM (#21881529)
A lot of providers will filter out SCTP at the boundaries, especially for consumers. I know of providers that only whitelist TCP and UDP on their gateways.
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Re:Why was SCTP selected for WebRTC’s data channel? (2014) by rjsw on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @05:46PM (#21880919)
Probably down to whether routers can do NAT for SCTP, I'm part way through adding support for it in the firewall that I use.

Routing SCTP over IPv6 should be easier.

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