Re: Port numbers and IPv6

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder at iu-bremen.de>]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:58:29AM -0700, Ned Freed wrote:

> >Out of curiosity, doesn't SCTP have a bigger port space (or its
> >moral equivalent)? If so, would that be a better option?
> 
> I have in fact on several occasions proposed using SCTP as a transport for
> various email services. I did so no so much to take advantage of the larger
> port numbers, but because the multistream support SCTP provides could be
> leveraged in several interesting ways. (In fact the multiplexing might
> even lessen the need for so many connections.)

Ehem, where is this larger port number? The port numbers I see in
section 3.1 of RFC 2960 seem to be 16 bit.

/js

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