On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:02:48PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
Please point me to where I can get a version of SSH that uses SCTP instead of TCP and talks to the existing SSHD services using TCP with flow survivability. If the TCP library changes underneath SSH and provides this capability, it will get deployed. If we need to completely rewrite all the applications to support TCP and SCTP in some sort of split-brained idea of how the world should work, then, adoption is less likely.
But old-style tcp apps don't work with ipv6 either. So if you're going to demand binary compatibility, all the mechanics need to get done below the app anyway. It would have been nice to make sctp be the standard stream protocol for ipv6. For most nanog customers, there's still time. Those places that have already seen significant ipv6 adoption may need to upgrade again. If we wait much longer, of course, the opportunity will be lost. To argue that it's already too late, when ipv6 is a small fraction of all traffic and an infinitesmal fraction of future traffic is, imho, foolish. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.