Network Address Translation for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol

Author

Tüxen, Michael ; Rüngeler, üIrene ; Stewart, Randall ; Rathgeb, Erwin P.

Author_Institution

Munster Univ. of Appl. Sci., Munster

Volume

22

Issue

5

fYear

2008

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

32

Abstract

Network address translation is widely deployed in the Internet and supports the transmission control protocol and the user datagram protocol as transport layer protocols. Although part of the kernels of all recent Linux distributions, namely, the FreeBSD 7 and the Solaris 10 operating systems, the new Internet Engineering Task Force transport protocol - stream control transmission protocol - is not supported on most NAT middleboxes yet. This article discusses the deficiencies of using existing NAT methods for SCTP and describes a new SCTP-specific NAT concept. This concept is analyzed in detail for several important network scenarios, including peer-to-peer, transport layer mobility, and multihoming.

Keywords

Internet; Linux; telecommunication control; transport protocols; FreeBSD 7 operating systems; Internet; Linux distributions; NAT methods; Solaris 10 operating systems; multihoming networks; network address translation; peer-to-peer networks; stream control transmission protocol; transmission control protocol; transport layer mobility; transport layer protocols; user datagram protocol; Control systems; Force control; IP networks; Internet; Kernel; Linux; Middleboxes; Network address translation; Operating systems; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Network, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0890-8044

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MNET.2008.4626229

Filename

4626229