Add Multipath TCP (MPTCP) support #23
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Multipath TCP or MPTCP is an extension to the standard TCP and is described in RFC 8684. It allows a device to make use of multiple interfaces at once to send and receive TCP packets over a single MPTCP connection. MPTCP can aggregate the bandwidth of multiple interfaces or prefer the one with the lowest latency. It also allows a fail-over if one path is down, and the traffic is seamlessly reinjected on other paths. For more details about MPTCP, refer to the official website https://mptcp.dev Typical uses cases for this library would be to leverage the fail-over capacity of MPTCP to enhance the user experience on mobile devices (android/iOS). Changes to this repository consist of replacing the protocol field value, previously IPPROTO_TCP, by IPPROTO_MPTCP (if this symbol is available) when creating sockets.
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Multipath TCP or MPTCP is an extension to the standard TCP and is described in RFC 8684. It allows a device to make use of multiple interfaces at once to send and receive TCP packets over a single MPTCP connection. MPTCP can aggregate the bandwidth of multiple interfaces or prefer the one with the lowest latency. It also allows a fail-over if one path is down, and the traffic is seamlessly reinjected on other paths.
For more details about MPTCP, refer to the official website https://mptcp.dev
Typical uses cases for this library would be to leverage the fail-over capacity of MPTCP to enhance the user experience on mobile devices (android/iOS).
Changes to this repository consist of replacing the protocol field value, previously IPPROTO_TCP, by IPPROTO_MPTCP (if this symbol is available) when creating sockets.