Multipath TCP (MPTCP), standardized in RFC8684 [1], is a TCP extension
that enables a TCP connection to use different paths. 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 re-injected on other paths.
To benefit from MPTCP, both the client and the server have to support
it. Multipath TCP is a backward-compatible TCP extension that is enabled
by default on recent Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, ...).
Multipath TCP is included in the Linux kernel since version 5.6 [2]. To
use it on Linux, an application must explicitly enable it when creating
the socket:
int sd = socket(AF_INET(6), SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_MPTCP);
No need to change anything else in the application.
This patch allows MPTCP protocol in the Socket unit configuration. So
now, a <unit>.socket can contain this to use MPTCP instead of TCP:
[Socket]
SocketProtocol=mptcp
MPTCP support has been allowed similarly to what has been already done
to allow SCTP: just one line in core/socket.c, a very simple addition
thanks to the flexible architecture already in place.
On top of that, IPPROTO_MPTCP has also been added in the list of allowed
protocols in two other places, and in the doc. It has also been added to
the missing_network.h file, for systems with an old libc -- note that it
was also required to include <netinet/in.h> in this file to avoid
redefinition errors.
Link: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8684.html [1]
Link: https://www.mptcp.dev [2]
This reverts PR #23269 and its follow-up commit. Especially,
2299b1cae3 (partially), and
3cf63830ac.
The PR was merged without final approval, and has several issues:
- The NetLabel for static addresses are not assigned, as labels are
stored in the Address objects managed by Network, instead of Link.
- If NetLabel is specified for a static address, then the address
section will be invalid and the address will not be configured,
- It should be implemented with Request object,
- There is no test about the feature.
New directive `NetLabel=` provides a method for integrating dynamic network
configuration into Linux NetLabel subsystem rules, used by Linux security
modules (LSMs) for network access control. The option expects a whitespace
separated list of NetLabel labels. The labels must conform to lexical
restrictions of LSM labels. When an interface is configured with IP addresses,
the addresses and subnetwork masks will be appended to the NetLabel Fallback
Peer Labeling rules. They will be removed when the interface is
deconfigured. Failures to manage the labels will be ignored.
Example:
```
[DHCP]
NetLabel=system_u:object_r:localnet_peer_t:s0
```
With the above rules for interface `eth0`, when the interface is configured with
an IPv4 address of 10.0.0.0/8, `systemd-networkd` performs the equivalent of
`netlabelctl` operation
```
$ sudo netlabelctl unlbl add interface eth0 address:10.0.0.0/8 label:system_u:object_r:localnet_peer_t:s0
```
Result:
```
$ sudo netlabelctl -p unlbl list
...
interface: eth0
address: 10.0.0.0/8
label: "system_u:object_r:localnet_peer_t:s0"
...
```
A variety of sockopts exist both for IPv4 and IPv6 but require a
different pair of sockopt level/option number. Let's add helpers for
these that internally determine the right sockopt to call.
This should shorten code that generically wants to support both ipv4 +
ipv6 and for the first time adds correct support for some cases where we
only called the ipv4 versions, and not the ipv6 options.
