How to [not] implement a [not so] new net protocol
summary
Explains Multipath TCP (MPTCP), the TCP extension designed to boost per‑connection bandwidth and resilience to link failures, describes how MPTCP works, and walks through the technical and non‑technical challenges involved in getting a mainline Linux kernel implementation accepted (the upstreaming effort).
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