Re: (FCoverIP) SCTP extension.

["Randall R. Stewart" <randall@stewart.chicago.il.us>]

Douglas Otis wrote:
> 
> As a possible extension to SCTP to deal with the limitation of FC, perhaps a
> trinary setting of the retransmission could be made:  Unlimited, 1, or 0.
> By allowing at least one retry, most lost frames would be recovered within a
> constrained window of time.  The danger with FC is an underlying transport
> overlap of recovery mechanisms.  One other consideration is the size of the
> buffers at each end of SCTP as this would also skew a time window but would
> be required to prevent loss at this point as well.
> 
> BTW, what is the latest T11 DMP specification?
> 
> Doug
Doug,

I think I like this idea. We (the authors of the u-sctp extension)
are currently debating the addtion of the bit to turn off the
adler32... I will add this to the debate too :-)

It is not really a wire change so I don't think there is any
problem...


R
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