SCTP support for OpenSSH

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 30 May 2012, Robin Seggelmann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have written a patch to add SCTP support for OpenSSH on systems with SCTP capabilities with the following features:
> 
> - SCTP support can be configured with --with-sctp, but is disabled by default
> - use SCTP for SSH connections instead of TCP
> - SCTP's multi-homing is activated for all available addresses by default, if SCTP is used
> - the sshd can be configured to listen with TCP, SCTP, or both with the "Transport" keyword for sshd_config
> - the sshd listens on single addresses given with each "ListenAddress" and on multiple addresses multi-homed given with each "ListenMultipleAddresses" (with SCTP)
> - the ssh client can use SCTP to connected to a server with the -z cmd parameter or the "Transport" keyword for ssh_config
> - updated man pages
> - the patch is prepared to add multi-streaming support for SSH channels later
>
> I would like to submit the patch if you're interested in SCTP support.
> Should the patch be created for the latest stable release or the
> current CVS version? Do you prefer the mailing list or the bug tracker
> for a submission?

Cool - we strongly prefer https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/ for patch submissions.
If you upload it there then we will not lose it.

-d