MPTCP Linux Upstream

Long time no see (or read?)

The MPTCP protocol is complex, mainly to be able to survive on the Internet where middleboxes such as NATs, firewalls, IDS or proxies can modify parts of the TCP packets.

A bit more than one year ago, I started the Angel Project: improving the “deployability” of Multipath TCP.

Here is a small update on what happened recently, like various small improvements to help the end users, a new mptcpd version and more to come.

A bit more than 3 months after the last update, I think it is really time to share some updates about MPTCP!

Last month, I didn’t publish any new blog post here.

As mentioned in the About page, this project is currently funded through NGI0 Core, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet program.

During the last few months, a lot of work has been done to help other kernel developers, and stabilize the current solution.

The previous post mentioned that February was still full of various “maintenance” tasks, mainly around the backports, and the preparation of the future Linux 6.9.

The previous post mentioned that January was still full of various “maintenance” tasks, mainly around the CI, and the various tests we have.