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Multipath TCP

NGINX ๐ŸŒ 1.29.7 mainline version introduces support for Multipath TCP ๐Ÿ”€ ๐ŸŽ‰

This comes a bit after two NGINXโ€™s forks โ€“ freenginx and Angie โ€“ with a different approach, but still with the same way to enable it: simply by adding the multipath parameter to the listen instruction, e.g.

  listen <address|port> multipath

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If you are a sysadmin, feel free to enable MPTCP support on NGINX and any other server side services: no impact on โ€œplainโ€ TCP connections because โ€œplainโ€ TCP requests will trigger the creation of a โ€œplainโ€ TCP socket on the server side when being accepted. MPTCP will only be used when requested by the clients, which are usually the ones benefiting from using MPTCP ๐Ÿ”€.

More details here.

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