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Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Table of Contents:
Definition and Overview
1. Introduction
2. Stream Control Transmission Protocol
3. SCTP Advantages: Multi-Homing, Multi-Streaming, and Other Features
4. SCTP Packet Format: A Structural Overview
5. SCTP Functions: Tracking the Transmission Process
6. SCTP Application Programming Interface (API)
7. Conclusion
Self-Test
Glossary
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Self-Test
1. SCTP has been developed in compliance with the IETF standard for ___________.
a. RFC 2890
b. RFC 2780
c. RFC 2960
d. RFC 2360
2. In SCTP, data is transmitted only when a connection is established by creating a relationship, which is referred to as _______________.
a. a link
b. an association
c. a collaboration
d. an affiliation
3. ________ chunks acknowledge the receipt of data chunks and inform the endpoint of duplicated or missing chunks.
a. INIT ACK
b. COOKIE ACK
c. HEARTBEAT ACK
d. SACK
4. SCTP performs close monitoring of transmission paths to the peer endpoint using __________ and ___________ chunks to test the connectivity of each path.
a. INIT; INIT ACK
b. COOKIE ECHO; COOKIE ACK
c. HEARTBEAT; HEARTBEAT ACK
d. SHUTDOWN; SHUTDOWN ACK
5. Using the ___________ feature of SCTP, data traffic between endpoints can be routed through possibly different paths to separate IP addresses.
a. Chunk-bundling
b. multiple-streaming
c. address-management
d. multiple-homing
6. Within SCTP streams, TSN specifies the ordering of messages and pinpoints message loss and SSN determines the sequence of delivery within each stream.
a. true
b. false
7. There are ___ types of chunks identified that are indicated by the chunk type field.
a. 5
b. 13
c. 10
d. 25
8. SCTP deploys the _________ mechanism to safeguard the connection from blind attackers that try to overload the system with counterfeit PDUs.
a. fault-management
b. selective-retransmission
c. cookie
d. chunk-bundling
9. SCTP ___ exist between the SCTP user layer and the SCTP packet service layer.
a. IP addresses
b. APIs
c. data chunks
d. PDUs
10. SCTP is a transport protocol that would require changing the infrastructure and network routes within present IP networks.
a. true
b. false
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