Hi, I've spoken to some SCTP related people about this before. The trouble is:
* NOone's fleshed out how HTTP over SCTP should look; * Noone's fleshed out how servers should choose HTTP over TCP vs SCTP. They're the much more pressing questions. Adrian On Sat, May 31, 2008, Pranav Desai wrote: > Hello All, > > What would you suggest should be the way to include SCTP support in Squid 3.0 > ? > > My assumption here is that SCTP would be useful for clients (which > support SCTP) connecting using slow/lossy wireless type networks. My > goal is to experiment and compare the performance against TCP for > wireless networks. > > So, I started with that and was easily able to add a config option for > client-side and change the corresponding function > clientHttpConnectionsOpen() to set appropriate protocol type and it > worked just fine. But that would make it an SCTP only proxy. > > We could also open up another listening port for SCTP, so that we can > have both SCTP and TCP simultaneously, where the origin server side > will always be TCP. > > But I feel that I am missing something here. So, I would really > appreciate any suggestions or comments you may have. > > Thanks for your time. > > -- Pranav -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
