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Multipath TCP for Linux (2022)


Multipath TCP (MPTCP) for Linux, an extension to TCP that enhances connection redundancy and performance by utilizing multiple underlying TCP sessions simultaneously. This site provides installation guides, debugging tools, FAQs, and a list of apps supporting MPTCP, aimed at facilitating the adoption and implementation of MPTCP for Linux users and developers.

It allows a device to make use of multiple interfaces at once to send and receive TCP packets over a single MPTCP connection. It can decide to maximize the use of the available bandwidth, only to pick the path with the lower latency, or any other policy depending on the configuration. Debug features including MIB counters, diag support (used by the ss command), and tracepoints.

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