In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Spencer Dawkins" writes:
>It would be OK if someone smart responded to this posting, but until
>they show up, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt is showing
>
>- a 16-bit source and destination port numbers in the common header
>(3.1), AND
>
>- a 16-bit stream identifier (3.3.1), AND
>
>- a 32-bit Payload Protocol Identifier (3.3.1)
>
>so there seems to be a large number of bits to identify a bunch of
>different "connections" and/or "protocols" in SCTP.
>
>Ned, could you be remembering the PPI?
>
>To be honest, I believe all the SCTP network traces I've seen had
>zeros in both the stream identifier and PPI, but the bits are there...
>
If nothing else, with SCTP a single client could open multiple streams
on one connection, rather than use multiple connections.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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