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

Question

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

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

SctpDrv

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.

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.