What Ever Happened to SCTP?

Posted by trixtur on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:13PM
from the self-post dept.

In the mid-2000s this technology seemed to be up and coming. The world has become ever more mobile. The need for this technology has only increased.

So what happened?

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Re:What Ever Happened to SCTP? by detaro on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:26PM (#22173133)

The networks, OSes, ... weren't ready to accept a new protocol at such a low level, so it never worked reliably over random public connections and stayed in a niche for internal use cases. Things like QUIC, WebRTC, MP-TCP, ... rebuild aspects of it over TCP or UDP to get around this problem.

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Re:What Ever Happened to SCTP? by trixtur on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:48PM (#22173354)

I guess that makes sense. I remember doing a research project in school and it seemed then like it would be the future. IoT and mobile phones would definitely benefit from a connectionless protocol like that.

That is the very reason I use `mosh` to connect to my servers. My laptop isn't always on the same internet connection and I'd prefer not to have to reconnect all the time.

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Re:What Ever Happened to SCTP? by theamk on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:44PM (#22173300)

Turns out, there is a lot of advanced routers, firewalls, IDSes, etc.. which like to inspect and filter the traffic, and they often drop unknown protocols.

As a result, new IP-based protocols are likely to have the connectivity problems. So all the development moved to be UDP based.

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