Routing Plugin

The Routing Plugin - routing - is a plugin for the Multipath TCP Daemon - mptcpd - that automatizes the routing configuration needed for mptcp to work correctly.

Building

To build routing the following dependencies are required:

• Build dependencies
  • C compiler (C99 compliant)
  • GNU Autoconf
  • GNU Automake
  • GNU Libtool
  • GNU Autoconf Archive
  • pkg-config
  • Pandoc >= 2.2.1 (needed to convert README.md contents from the GitHub markdown format content to plain text)
• Run and build dependencies
  • Patched mptcpd
  • Linux kernel NetLink user API headers
  • Embedded Linux Library >= v0.30
  • Library Minimalistic NetLink

Bootstrapping

Assuming all build dependencies listed above are installed, bootstrapping routing simply requires to run the bootstrap script in the top-level source directory, e.g.:

$ ./bootstrap

Build Steps

These build steps are the same as the ones found in all Autotool enabled software packages, i.e. running the configure followed by the command make.

./configure
make

If configure returns an error about mptcpd not being found set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and run it again, e.g.:

$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure

Instalation

NOTE: Installing routing requires to be run with sudo if the mptcpd plugin directory is owned by root.

Installing routing on any Linux system just requires to run:

make install

Running

For the plugin to work properly it is necessary that the existing notify-flags is active, e.g.:

# mptcpd patched version
$ mptcpd --notify-flags=existing