mptcp-pm: A work in progress Multipath TCP path manager

[ gpl, library, mptcp, network, program ] [ Propose Tags ]

Multipath TCP (www.multipath-tcp.org) starting from version 0.95 provides a netlink path manager module. This package implements the userspace part to allow userspace daemons to control MPTCP behavior.


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Versions [RSS] 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.4, 0.0.5
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Dependencies aeson, aeson-extra, aeson-pretty, base (>=4.12 && <4.20), bytestring, bytestring-conversion, c2hsc, cereal, containers, fast-logger, filepath, hslogger, ip, netlink (>=1.1.1.0), optparse-applicative, process, temporary, text, unordered-containers [details]
License GPL-3.0-only
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Maintainer teto
Category Network
Home page https://github.com/teto/netlink_pm
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/teto/netlink_pm
Uploaded by teto at 2019-10-04T04:43:40Z
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Executables mptcp-pm
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Readme for mptcp-pm-0.0.2

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This is a rewrite in haskell of the python netlink module. nix-shell -p 'haskellPackages.ghcWithHoogle(p: with p; [netlink optparse-applicative ])'

The netlink module asks for GENL_ADMIN_PERM => The operation requires the CAP_NET_ADMIN privilege

sudo setcap cap_net_admin+ep hs/dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.6.3/netlink-pm-1.0.0/x/daemon/build/daemon/daemon

Netlink explanation

To fetch TCP diagnostics: Creates a socket with family eNETLINK_INET_DIAG (really NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG) with value 4 AF_INET => netlink family 2

Compilation

With a custom netlink and kernel Compile the custom netlink library with

$ cabal configure --enable-library-profiling
kernel $ make headers_install
$ cabal configure --package-db /home/teto/netlink-hs/dist/package.conf.inplace --extra-include-dirs=/home/teto/mptcp2/build/usr/include -v3 --enable-profiling

To compile the doc (and understand why HIE fails displaying anything) cabal haddock --all

Usage

Enter the nix-shell shell-test.nix and start the daemon:

$ cabal run daemon

or $ buildNRun To print a stacktrace cabal run daemon toto -- +RTS -xc

In a shell: $ nix run nixpkgs.iperf -c iperf -s

In another: $ nix run nixpkgs.iperf -c iperf -c localhost -b 1KiB -t 4 --cport 5500 -4 -C cubic

Script to reload module

reload_mod() {
    newMod="$1"

	if [ -z "${newMod}" ]; then
		echo "Use: <path to new module>"
		echo "possibly /home/teto/mptcp2/build/net/mptcp/mptcp_netlink.ko"
	fi
# 1. change to another scheduler
    mppm "fullmesh"
	sleep 1
# 2. rmmod the current one
    sudo rmmod "mptcp_netlink"

# 3. Insert our new module
	sleep 1
    sudo insmod "$1"

# 4. restore path manager
	mppm "netlink"

}

Testsuite

$ ss -t -4 -i ss -o state established '( dport = :ssh or sport = :ssh )' https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/499190/where-is-the-official-documentation-debian-package-iproute-doc

sudo insmod ~/mptcp/build/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.ko

BUGS

  • conversion of SockDiagExtensionId is bad everywhere ? req.r.idiag_ext |= (1<<(INET_DIAG_INFO-1));

TODO

  • remove the need for MptcpSocket everywhere: it's just needed to write the header, which could be added/modifier later instead ! (to increase purity in the library)
  • replace Enum2Bits wordToEnums function, especially to fix getSockDiagRequestHeader (with bitset package once it's fixed)
  • we need to better keep track of subflow status (established vs WIP) ?
  • pass local/server IPs as commands to the PM ?
  • generate completion scripts via --zsh-completion-script

Note: ss package sends by default -- #define SS_ALL ((1 << SS_MAX) - 1) -- #define SS_CONN (SS_ALL & ~((1<<SS_LISTEN)|(1<<SS_CLOSE)|(1<<SS_TIME_WAIT)|(1<<SS_SYN_RECV))) -- #define TIPC_SS_CONN ((1<<SS_ESTABLISHED)|(1<<SS_LISTEN)|(1<<SS_CLOSE))