Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 3 authors, 2020-12-10

Re: [MPTCP] Re: [RFC PATCH] selinux: handle MPTCP consistently with TCP

From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Date: 2020-12-04 02:25:39
Also in: mptcp, selinux

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 6:54 PM Florian Westphal [off-list ref] wrote:
Paul Moore [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
I'm not very well versed in MPTCP, but this *seems* okay to me, minus
the else-crud chunk.  Just to confirm my understanding, while MPTCP
allows one TCP connection/stream to be subdivided and distributed
across multiple interfaces, it does not allow multiple TCP streams to
be multiplexed on a single connection, yes?
Its the latter.  The application sees a TCP interface (socket), but
data may be carried over multiple individual tcp streams on the wire.
Hmm, that may complicate things a bit from a SELinux perspective.  Maybe not.

Just to make sure I understand, with MPTCP, a client that
traditionally opened multiple TCP sockets to talk to a server would
now just open a single MPTCP socket and create multiple sub-flows
instead of multiple TCP sockets?

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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com
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