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What are the problems with SCTP over UDP, except the obvious extra (eight byte) overhead?
by gsnedders 12y ago
What are the problems with SCTP over UDP, except the obvious extra (eight byte) overhead?
- aidenn0 12y agoUDP is just not as reliable over NAT (mainly due to crappy NAT implementations). SCTP tries really hard to keep it working (including heartbeats on idle connections), but implementing the 50% of SCTP that HTTP benefits from over TCP will work exactly as well as HTTPS whereas SCTP over UDP runs into lots of tiny issues due to nobody having tested it on their $5 NAT before putting it in a wifi router or a DSL/CABLE modem.