Feature #4632: Support for Multipath TCP (MPTCP) - pfSense - pfSense bugtracker

Feature #4632

Support for Multipath TCP (MPTCP)

Added by Cullen Trey over 4 years ago. Updated 4 months ago.

Status:

New

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Jim Thompson

Category:

Operating System

Target version:

Future

Start date:

04/18/2015

Due date:

% Done:

Estimated time:

Description

Hi,

i have read a lot of articles about MPTCP recently. So I wondered why the best router OS pfsense is not supporting it. Perhaps none of the developers knows about it? Or FreeBSD is not supporting it? However, for FreeBSD there seems to be some kind of support:

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2012-04-2012-06.html#Multipath-TCP-%28MPTCP%29-for-FreeBSD

But what does MPTCP: It bundles diffent network connections of the tcp layer, so the application can use multiple (internet) connections without even knowing it.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6182
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6824

Why is it so important for me: Well it supports some scenarios which pfsense tries to support i.e. with apinger etc. in a much "better" way: Gateway failover, utilising multiple internet connections in the tcp session!

IF YOU COULD ADD THIS FEATURE, IT IS POSSIBLE TO BUILD SYSTEMS LIKE THESE: http://www.viprinet.com

Even IOS supports it for Siri!

Kind regards and i would love to see this feature!

History

#1 Updated by Jim Thompson over 3 years ago

Assignee set to Jim Thompson
Target version set to Future
Affected Architecture set to All

Viprnet is just bonding, not mtcp.

When mtcp shows up in FreeBSD base (not as a side-project), we'll make this work.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2013-March/034882.html

#2 Updated by Jim Thompson over 3 years ago

update: https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.html#Multipath-TCP-for-FreeBSD

Maybe in 11-RELEASE.

#3 Updated by serdar kekik over 2 years ago

Hello,

Could you please add this feature on 2.4.0 version?

#4 Updated by Sven Oesterle over 2 years ago

I also would like to see it in PfSense.

I'm using MPTCP to bond my three connections (2x VDSL + LTE). It works perfectly! But of course I have to use a minimal linux system with iptables without any graphical interface or something and I really would like to switch back to PfSense :).