Entering the mosh pit

Posted May 17, 2017 12:42 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Entering the mosh pit by obonaventure
Parent article: Entering the mosh pit

Downside: the middleboxes presumably have to support MPTCP or at least not block it. The time before a random satellite Internet provider supports *that* is probably measured in the centuries :(

MPTCP

Posted May 17, 2017 13:03 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

MPTCP is rather carefully designed to sneak through middleboxes; that's where a lot of the complexity in the protocol comes from. Some details are in my 2013 article on the subject.

Unfortunately, the work to upstream this code seems to have stalled completely.

Entering the mosh pit

Posted May 20, 2017 7:54 UTC (Sat) by obonaventure (guest, #108715) [Link] (1 responses)

Apple has been using MPTCP for Siri on all iPhones, iPads and now MacOS devices without observing severe problems caused by middleboxes deployed on the Internet. MPTCP works well through those middleboxes.

Entering the mosh pit

Posted May 20, 2017 11:41 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Oh, excellent! Now all we have to do is get it merged :)