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  1. DCCP protocol
  2. ============
  3. Contents
  4. ========
  5. - Introduction
  6. - Missing features
  7. - Socket options
  8. - Notes
  9. Introduction
  10. ============
  11. Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is an unreliable, connection
  12. based protocol designed to solve issues present in UDP and TCP particularly
  13. for real time and multimedia traffic.
  14. It has a base protocol and pluggable congestion control IDs (CCIDs).
  15. It is at draft RFC status and the homepage for DCCP as a protocol is at:
  16. http://www.icir.org/kohler/dcp/
  17. Missing features
  18. ================
  19. The DCCP implementation does not currently have all the features that are in
  20. the draft RFC.
  21. In particular the following are missing:
  22. - CCID2 support
  23. - feature negotiation
  24. When testing against other implementations it appears that elapsed time
  25. options are not coded compliant to the specification.
  26. Socket options
  27. ==============
  28. DCCP_SOCKOPT_PACKET_SIZE is used for CCID3 to set default packet size for
  29. calculations.
  30. DCCP_SOCKOPT_SERVICE sets the service. The specification mandates use of
  31. service codes (RFC 4340, sec. 8.1.2); if this socket option is not set,
  32. the socket will fall back to 0 (which means that no meaningful service code
  33. is present). Connecting sockets set at most one service option; for
  34. listening sockets, multiple service codes can be specified.
  35. Notes
  36. =====
  37. SELinux does not yet have support for DCCP. You will need to turn it off or
  38. else you will get EACCES.
  39. DCCP does not travel through NAT successfully at present. This is because
  40. the checksum covers the psuedo-header as per TCP and UDP. It should be
  41. relatively trivial to add Linux NAT support for DCCP.