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MPTCP is an extension of TCP and is "drop-in". But AFAIK making it opt-in was a concession to get it upstreamed in Linux, understandably as this is a risky chan
by tracnar 4y ago
MPTCP is an extension of TCP and is "drop-in". But AFAIK making it opt-in was a concession to get it upstreamed in Linux, understandably as this is a risky change.
There are different ways to enable it on unmodified applications, e.g. via a wrapper or using eBPF.
- kevincox 4y agoHopefully there will eventually be a sysctl to do it by default and maybe with enough testing enable tbat be default.