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Re: [multipathtcp] compiling MPTCP on Red Hat based systems (Scientific Linux)?

Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be> Thu, 06 September 2012 15:02 UTC

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Hello,

On Thursday 06 September 2012 16:45:07 Ronald van der Pol wrote:
> We are trying to compile an MPTCP kernel on a Red Hat based system
> (Scientific Linux, Fedora). Did anybody succeed in this? If so,
> please let us know how you did this.
> 
> E.g., when copying the MPTCP kernel source to a Red Hat kernel build
> infrastructure we do not see the "MPTCP protocol" option in
> "make menuconfig".

you will have to disable "SYN_COOKIES", "TCP_MD5SIG" and "NET_DMA". 
Additionally, IPv6 cannot be set as a module. Either enable it as fully 
compiled inside the kernel, or disable it.
For more info, have a look here: 
http://mptcp.info.ucl.ac.be/pmwiki.php?n=Users.DoItYourself

Cheers,
Christoph

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