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by kelnos 608 days ago
Does anyone even build SCTP support directly into the kernel? Looks like Debian builds it as a module, which I'm sure I never have and never will load. Security risk seems pretty minimal there.

(And if someone can somehow coerce me into loading it, I have bigger problems.)
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jeroenhd 608 days ago
Linux and FreeBSD have had it for ages. Anything industrial too. Solaris, QNX, Cisco IOS.

SCTP is essential for certain older telco protocols and in certain protocols developed for LTE it was added. End users probably don't use it much, but the harsware their connections are going through will speak SCTP at some level.

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rjsw 608 days ago
I added it to NetBSD and build it into my kernels, it isn't enabled by default though.

Am part way through adding NAT support for it to the firewall.

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