What kind of SCTP support is there on various Windows versions?

Question

What kind of SCTP support is there on various Windows versions?

Proffer

Does Windows.next support SCTP? – Undulate

Answer 1

Out of the box, there are none, on any versions of Windows.(Microsoft has claimed there is no customer demand, so I always encourage anyone looking for SCTP on windows contact Microsoft and express their need for one..)

There are 3rd party implementations, e.g.

sctplib

Gregorio

+1 for "express their need for none" well the microsoft guys wont be using the internet that often or maybe stackoverflow specifically. "P – Crites

You might want to watch out for SctpDrv - I kept getting BSoDs on Win7, SP1. – Squid

Is there any SCTP 3rd party implementations for windows8?. So far, as I know SctpDrv does not. – Bambi

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/778329/… – Koetke

Answer 2

Recently, Windows support has been added to this userspace SCTP stack: http://sctp.fh-muenster.de/sctp-user-land-stack.html

It will have a paper in 2012 ICCCN describing its implementation.

Roulers

Answer 3

From the Wikipedia article:

The following operating systems implement SCTP:

• AIX Version 5
• Generic BSD with external patch at KAME project
• Cisco IOS 12
• DragonFly BSD since version 1.4
• FreeBSD, version 7 and above
• HP-UX, 11i v2 and above
• Operating systems using Linux kernel 2.4 and newer
• QNX Neutrino Realtime OS, 6.3.0 and above
• Sun Solaris 10 and above

Various third-party implementations of SCTP exist for other operating systems. FreeBSD contains the SCTP reference implementation.

Userspace library:

• The SCTP library (sctplib), with a Windows XP port.

So apparently there is no native support in Windows at all. Only through 3rd-party software or libraries.

Hagen

What other libraries are available and is there anything available for Vista and Win7? – Proffer

Since sctplib is a userspace library it should work without problems on Vista or Windows 7 too. Apart from that, did you try Google already? I hear they return all kinds of fancy results when searching for "windows sctp library". – Hagen

3rd party kernel extension and userspace library for Mac OS X: github.com/sctplab/SCTP_NKE_ElCapitan – Petard