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LKSCTP number of retransmissions

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It seems like setting the maximum number of retransmissions per packet is not implemented in the linux kernel implementation of SCTP?

Can anyone please confirm that?

posted May 16, 2013 by anonymous

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Possibly you are looking for the PR-SCTP policy which limit the number of retransmissions. See
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tuexen-tsvwg-sctp-prpolicies-00
It is implemented in FreeBSD and will be used for RTCWeb.

answer May 16, 2013 by anonymous
That's exactly what I'm looking for :-)
I'm actually wanting to do some RTCWeb related experiments and am looking for an SCTP stack that supports that policy.

I take it that means that it's not implemented in the linux kernel version. I saw some activity in 2008 related to patching lksctp for that, but I'm guessing the patches weren't accepted.
commented May 16, 2013 by anonymous
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