[OpenAFS-devel] performance study

[Ken Hornstein]

>What about an SCTP transport for RX?
>
>It seems a lot better suited for file transfer, since it's a reliable
>message-oriented transport, and you can have multiple streams controlled
>by a single congestion control algorithm.

SCTP is definately on my "to-do" list.  The reason I advocated TCP for a
first effort was that every OS on the planet supports TCP, and we already
have reasonable tools for analyzing TCP performance.  But an SCTP transport
definately would be interesting.

--Ken