The term used in RFC2960 to describe the logical sender or receiver of
SCTP (
Stream Control
Transmission Protocol) packets. An SCTP
endpoint is represented to its peers as a combination of a set of eligible
destination transport addresses to which SCTP packets can be sent and a set of
eligible source transport addresses from which SCTP packets can be received. A
transport address used by an SCTP endpoint is unique to an SCTP endpoint.
Also see "The
OSI Reference Model - Understanding Layers" in the
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