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Doesn't SCTP serve the same purpose? Any reason why that never became mainstream for SSH etc?
by dveeden2 4y ago
Doesn't SCTP serve the same purpose? Any reason why that never became mainstream for SSH etc?
- detaro 4y agoIn theory yes, but good luck finding a firewall or consumer router that passes SCTP. Support for it across random internet paths is atrocious, this stuff is so stuck that if you don't look like TCP or UDP it's not generally usable. MP-TCP specifically does what it can to look like normal TCP connections so it doesn't get messed up by middle boxes and degrades gracefully.