FreeBSD 7.0 Snapshot with SCTP

I've been busy playing with various protocols in preparation for TCP/IP Weapons School in about two weeks. Recently I saw this post by Randall Stewart indicating that Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) had been added to FreeBSD CURRENT. I poked around in src/sys/netinet/ and found various SCTP files dated 3 Nov 06.

Rather than update a FreeBSD 6.x system to 7.0, I decided to look for the latest FreeBSD snapshot. Sure enough, I found the latest 7.0 snapshot was dated 6 Nov 06. I downloaded the first .iso and installed it into a VMware Server VM. The kernel was compiled on 5 Nov 06:

$ uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd70snap.taosecurity.com 7.0-CURRENT-200611
FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT-200611 #0: Sun Nov  5 19:31:17 UTC 2006     
root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

I found the SCTP files I was looking for, too.

$ cd /usr/src/sys/netinet
$ ls -al *sctp*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   11869 Nov  3 10:23 sctp.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   83862 Nov  3 14:48 sctp_asconf.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2884 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_asconf.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   62791 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_auth.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    9440 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_auth.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   58467 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_bsd_addr.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2370 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_bsd_addr.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   30071 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_constants.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   39292 Nov  4 03:45 sctp_crc32.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2149 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_crc32.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   14856 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_header.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  163684 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_indata.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    3965 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_indata.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  140398 Nov  4 03:19 sctp_input.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2301 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_input.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   12179 Nov  3 12:21 sctp_lock_bsd.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2474 Nov  3 12:21 sctp_os.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2882 Nov  3 12:21 sctp_os_bsd.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  261210 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_output.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    5216 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_output.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  149450 Nov  4 00:39 sctp_pcb.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   15352 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_pcb.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    7221 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_peeloff.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2158 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_peeloff.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   28138 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_structs.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   48751 Nov  4 03:19 sctp_timer.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    3311 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_timer.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   25951 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_uio.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  128287 Nov  3 18:04 sctp_usrreq.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   15869 Nov  3 10:23 sctp_var.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  146141 Nov  3 18:04 sctputil.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    9301 Nov  3 10:23 sctputil.h

However, the GENERIC kernel does not contain support for SCTP. It must be compiled in, which I did using the following method (based on my earlier post).

freebsd70snap# pwd
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf

freebsd70snap# cat SCTP
include GENERIC
options SCTP

freebsd70snap# cd /usr/src
freebsd70snap# make buildkernel KERNCONF=SCTP INSTKERNNAME=SCTP
freebsd70snap# make installkernel KERNCONF=SCTP INSTKERNNAME=SCTP

freebsd70snap# echo "kernel=SCTP" > /boot/loader.conf
freebsd70snap# cat /boot/loader.conf
kernel=SCTP

freebsd70snap# reboot

After reboot the new kernel was running.

$ uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd70snap.taosecurity.com 7.0-CURRENT-200611
FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT-200611 #0: Tue Nov 28 22:09:44 EST 2006 
root@freebsd70snap.taosecurity.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SCTP  i386

The next step is to try to get something working with SCTP. More on that later, hopefully!

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