Red Hat Bringing Multipath TCP To RHEL 8.3 As A Tech Preview

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Red Hat Bringing Multipath TCP To RHEL 8.3 As A Tech Preview

Red Hat confirmed today it is bringing Multipath TCP (MPTCP) to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 as a "tech preview" feature...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RHEL-8.3-Tech-Preview-MPTCP

[chilek]

I'm first:
`are back-porting the Multipatch TCP code`
should be:
`are back-porting the Multipath TCP code`
:-)

[Raka555]

I'm first:
`are back-porting the Multipatch TCP code`
should be:
`are back-porting the Multipath TCP code`
:-)

I had to look twice to see what was wrong

[juarezr]

Finally!!!!!

Even Apple noticed the huge benefits of multiplied network throughput and seamless roaming between 3G/Wifi/Cable.

[pierce]

Very keen to see this trickle down to Debian and my pinephone.

[CommunityMember]

Finally!!!!!

Even Apple noticed the huge benefits of multiplied network throughput and seamless roaming between 3G/Wifi/Cable.

Pretty sure RH's interest in the backport is for their customers large DC solutions, where 100/200GbE NICs are the sweet spot (400/800 GbE NICs are still somewhat niche solutions), but higher network performance is required.

[starshipeleven]

Pretty sure RH's interest in the backport is for their customers large DC solutions, where 100/200GbE NICs are the sweet spot (400/800 GbE NICs are still somewhat niche solutions), but higher network performance is required.

Yeah, but it's pretty crucial to have the public servers have that too or clients can't use their own multipath-TCP capability.

That said, afaik Windows does not support it (obviously, why would it?) so it's probably not that important for public servers right now.

[tildearrow]

I'm first:
`are back-porting the Multipatch TCP code`
should be:
`are back-porting the Multipath TCP code`
:-)

It is Multipatch.... a lot of patches