Kamailio SCTP transport now as a module

The Kamailio implementation of the SCTP transport layerhas been moved from core to a dedicated module. Befor this change, enabling SCTP required a recompile of the core if you didn’t do it from the beginning, making it a bit complex at least when installing from packages.

Following the same architecture as with TLS, the SCTP code has been moved to its own module, making it possible to enable SCTP support by just compiling and installing the SCTP module. If Kamailio was installed from packages, an extra package has to be installed as well (kamailio-sctp-modules).

The parameters related to control of SCTP sockets have been moved to the module as well. You can read the module documentation at:

• http://kamailio.org/docs/modules/devel/modules/sctp.html

On Linux, to get sctp modules compile, you have to install libsctp-dev package.

The SCTP module will be part of the next major release of Kamailio, later this year.

SCTP and Config Benchmarking

Two of the newest additions in OpenSER development version got the attention in the last time.

First is about SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol), a contribution of Connecticut College, completes the list with transport protocols supported by OpenSER. SCTP is mainly used for trunking, hopefully will gain more space in end-user side as well.

http://www.openser.org/mos/view/News/NewsItem/SCTP-Support/

Second is about benchmarking your configuration file. The new module benchmark brings the necessary tools so you can wrap a piece of configuration file and get the execution time. Elements that can have decisional impact in scalability and tunning.

http://www.openser.org/mos/view/News/NewsItem/Benchmarking-OpenSER-config/