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Multipath TCP

NGINX 🌐 1.29.7 mainline version introduces support for Multipath TCP 🔀 🎉

This comes a bit after two NGINX’s forks – freenginx and Angie – 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

More details here.

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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 “plain” TCP connections because “plain” TCP requests will trigger the creation of a “plain” 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 🔀.

More details here.

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