Chapter 23. Advanced SCTP Sockets
Introduction
In this chapter, we will dig a bit deeper into SCTP, examining more of the features and socket options that SCTP provides to its users. We will discuss a number of topics, including control of failure detection, unordered data, and notifications. Throughout this chapter, we will provide examples of code so that the reader can see how to use some of SCTP’s advanced features.
SCTP is a message-oriented protocol, delivering partial or complete messages to the user. Partial messages will only be delivered if the application chooses to send large messages (e.g., larger than half the socket buffer size) to its peer. When partial messages are delivered, SCTP will never mix two partial messages together. An ...
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