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=head1 REQUIRED INSTALL

lksctp-tools
lksctp-tools-devel

=head1 DESCRIPTION

An SCTP (Stream Control Transport Protocol) module created for Perl using XS
with the Net extension because it is a net module.

SCTP is a streaming protocol of things like UDP and TCP. It is used in new
technologies like LTE for phones. It streams data from multiple or one source
to multiple or one source. If one connection is lost the data is not lost because
it will continue to buffer until it gets the connection back and gets the rest of
the message. It is also backwards compatible with TCP.

We used the draft 11 of the SCTP architecture for this module. A link is
listed in the SEE ALSO section.

Tested on CentOS 5.2 with an i686 architecture using
lksctp-tools-1.0.6-1.el5.1.i386 with IPv4.