also it has extra cruft like mtu discovery and multihoming of both source and destination. this means that sctp is ~29kloc and tcp is 14kloc of code in the linux kernel. but sctp doesn't have connections.
il in plan 9 is ~1kloc. so i think my parody is still apt. - erik On Tue Sep 26 04:08:52 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > erik quanstrom wrote: > > from what i can tell, SCTP combines the limitations of il with the > > complexity of tcp. > > i think porting il to linux would be more useful. > > > > It does have congestion and flow control, which is some of the > limitations of IL.
