RE: Real time applications on LTNs or 2.5/3G networks

Behcet Sarikaya <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:56:05 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.pilc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Mohammed,
  Direct notifications from layer 2 for SCTP is kind
of layer violation. 
  My question is this a feature defined in SCTP RFC or
something that SCTP implementations you cited have?

Regards,
--- Ali Mohammed-MALI1 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Ruud,
> 
>  I will only speak for SCTP. It is available for
> Linux and FreeBSD platform. I am pretty sure there
> is a version for Solaris. Also, i agree that there
> can be signifcant improvement in application
> performance by notification from lower layers. The
> SCTP stack should provide you better hints about the
> state of the link, delay etc also you could have
> direct notifications from Layer2 to the application
> ( callbacks) to take proactive measures.
> 
> Mohammed  
>  
> 
> 
--behcet

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