.. _Using SCTP in Containers and Virtual Machines:

Using SCTP in Containers and Virtual Machines
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Virtuozzo supports the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) in both containers and virtual machines. In virtual machines, SCTP can be set up and used like on any physical machine. In containers, SCTP support is disabled by default. To enable SCTP in containers, load the ``sctp`` kernel module on the hardware node with

::

    # modprobe sctp

After the module is loaded, you can create and use SCTP sockets inside containers with standard Linux tools.

If required, add an ``sctp`` entry to the ``/etc/modules-load.d/vz.conf`` file to automatically load the ``sctp`` kernel module on hardware node start.

.. note:: Live migration via SCTP is not supported.

