But supporting SCTP has to start somewhere ? Why? [LWN.net]

But supporting SCTP has to start somewhere ? Why?

Posted Nov 26, 2009 7:57 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: But supporting SCTP has to start somewhere ? Why? by foom
Parent article: Reducing HTTP latency with SPDY

>> There's almost no advantage at that point versus actually having a NAT.

Sure there is.

You avoid starving the router of TCP (or SCTP) ports. You avoid having to mangle TCP packets because they happen to contain addresses. You avoid IP address based "one-connection-per-client" limits on servers.

In short, you can use simpler servers and routers. Which translates to fewer bugs and less power-hungry CPUs.

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