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So there's no advantage other than getting through broken middleboxes?
by catern 9y ago
So there's no advantage other than getting through broken middleboxes?
- tptacek 9y agoNo, another advantage is that you can do UDP entirely in userland without privilege. What allocating a new IP protocol says is pretty close to "all bets are off, and we're carefully taking responsibility for how every system that interacts with TCP/IP headers will handle these packets". Since SCTP doesn't need that, there's no upside. It's vanity and bloody-mindedness.