Bug#1005012: ITP: mptcpd -- Multipath TCP Daemon
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : mptcpd
Version : 0.9
Upstream Author : Ossama Othman <ossama.othman@intel.com>
* URL : https://github.com/intel/mptcpd
* License : BSD-3-Clause
Programming Lang: C
Description : Multipath TCP Daemon
The Multipath TCP Daemon - mptcpd - is a daemon for Linux based
operating systems that performs Multipath TCP path management related
operations in the user space.
It interacts with the Linux kernel through a generic Netlink
connection to track per-connection information (e.g. available remote
addresses), available network interfaces, request new MPTCP subflows,
handle requests for subflows, etc.
Why is this package useful/relevant?
MPTCP support is available in the Linux kernel since v5.6. The work
on the kernel side is still in progress:
https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/wiki
This userspace daemon is useful to configure a host to support
Multipath TCP: it interacts with the kernel to track and request
MPTCP-related features.
How do you plan to maintain it?
I'm part of the Linux MPTCP Upstream Project team, mostly working
on the kernel side. But here, I'm also helping to package this
software. We have regular meetings to follow up on different aspects
linked to this project. We then keep track of mptcpd development as
well which should help to maintain it. I don't know if this package
would fit into an existing team. mptcpd is fairly standard and is
not really complex to package.
Do you need a sponsor?
I will need a mentor as even if it is not the first time I'm
packaging softwares for Debian/Ubuntu, it is the first time I'm
going to send the initial version of a package for Debian.
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