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by asomiv 5377 days ago
Good luck making SCTP work with the $50 routers that everybody has in their homes. While you're at it, will you convince the rest of the world to switch to IPv6 please?
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What has kept SCTP down is the fact that the NAT code would have to be modified to support SCTP connections because they can be multi-homed. That will never happen. So, ironically, once the majority of the world has transitioned to IPv6, SCTP should be theoretically usable to talk to anyone if you're both not behind NAT anymore.
Yeah, but the cheap consumer routers that do not let SCTP through the NAT do not generally let IPv6 through either.
Yeah, this is unfortunately in the same bucket as all the other awesome things we could do if NAT didn't exist :(
Good luck getting everyone to switch from IE6.