https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2016
--- Comment #11 from Joshua Kinard <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Damien Miller from comment #10) > What is the benefit for SSH in using SCTP? The primary feature that I am aware of that SSH would benefit from is SCTP's built-in multi-homing capability. So if one connection in a multi-homed SCTP association broke down for some reason, the session wouldn't be interrupted because of automatic failover to other connections. There's a good whitepaper that discusses additional enhancements, such as using SCTP's multi-streaming capability to carry SSH's multiple channels: http://www.advances.et.put.poznan.pl/issues/5/ATE_issue5_p0097.pdf But it implies additional changes are needed to SCTP itself (mainly, definition of new chunk types specific to encryption being the main ones, of which I believe there are drafts before the IETF for RFC consideration). One thing I did notice, was back in OpenSSH 3.7, "implementation barriers" were removed that would enable SCTP support: http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-3.7 (~line 67) So there was some interest over ten years ago in this capability. What interest, however, seems to have been lost to the ravages of time. I haven't exactly stress-tested it or anything, but I figured I'd at least update the patch to apply against 6.6p1 and then see what interest, if any, there was :) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. You are watching someone on the CC list of the bug. _______________________________________________ openssh-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-bugs
