Are TCP Extensions Middlebox-proof?
Tue, 11/05/2013 - 12:51 by Benjamin Hesmans
Abstract
Besides the traditional routers and switches, middleboxes such as
NATs, firewalls, IDS or proxies have a growing importance in many
networks, notably in entreprise and wireless access
networks. Many of these middleboxes modify the packets that
they process. For this, they to implement (a subset of) protocols
like TCP. Despite the deployment of these middleboxes, TCP continues
to evolve on the endhosts and little is known about the interactions
between TCP extensions and the middleboxes.
In this paper, we experimentally evaluate the interference between
middleboxes and the Linux TCP stack. For this, we first propose
MBtest, a set of Click elements that model
middlebox behavior. We use it to experimentally evaluate how three TCP extensions
interact with middleboxes. We also analyzes measurements of the
interference between Multipath TCP and middleboxes in fifty different networks.
- Authors
- Benjamin Hesmans, Fabien Duchene, Christoph Paasch, Gregory Detal and Olivier Bonaventure
- Source
CoNEXT workshop HotMiddlebox , December 2013. ACM.- Keywords
- Protocol; TCP; Multipath TCP; Middlebox
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