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Title : Multipath TCP behind Layer-4 loadbalancers
Authors : Christoph Paasch
Greg Greenway
Alan Ford
Filename : draft-paasch-mptcp-loadbalancer-00.txt
Pages : 8
Date : 2015-09-07
Abstract:
Large webserver farms consist of thousands of frontend proxies that
serve as endpoints for the TCP and TLS connection and relay traffic
to the (sometimes distant) backend servers. Load-balancing across
those server is done by layer-4 loadbalancers that ensure that a TCP
flow will always reach the same server.
Multipath TCP's use of multiple TCP subflows for the transmission of
the data stream requires those loadbalancers to be aware of MPTCP to
ensure that all subflows belonging to the same MPTCP connection reach
the same frontend proxy. In this document we analyze the challenges
related to this and suggest a simple modification to the generation
of the MPTCP-token to overcome those challenges.
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