Subject: RE: [Sigtran] Query from a group of students

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:02:01 +0200

Hi Amit,

> We are a group of 3 students, Anup Deshpande, Prasad
> Edlabadkar and Amit Somanai, from Pune Institute of
> Computer Technology ,Pune , India. We are studying in
> the 4th year(i.e. final year) of Electronics &
> Telecommunication Engineering. We have a thrust for
> cutting edge technology and love working on
> challenging projects. We also like working on
> innovative ideas. Right now we are working on our
> final year project. The basic Project idea was to
> transport SS7 signals using TCP. But then we came
> across the disadvantages of TCP.
> So we have three options with us :
> 1. Using SCTP instead of TCP at the transport level
> 2. Using Sigtran stack
> 3. Using UDP and develop some application level on it 
> 
> The problem is we don`t know which one is actually
> feasible. We are implementing the project in Linux. Is
> there any Linux Kernel that is supporting SCTP. Can
> you suggest any small module that is still to
> implemented?

The SIGTRAN WG studied using UDP and TCP for transport,
but decided neither was sufficient, so it developed
SCTP and the SIGTRAN UAs.  SCTP is being supported
with Linux Kernel 2.5 - SCTP is under development
in that kernel.  You may wish to check http://sourceforge.net/projects/lksctp

John
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