TCP Fast Open (TFO) mechanism is described in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-fastopen-10.
Other considerations can be found in this white paper.
// Send first packet with sendto instead of connect bytes_written = sendto(sockd, pkt_data, i, MSG_FASTOPEN, (struct sockaddr *) &serv_addr, sizeof (serv_addr)); // If the fastopen fails then it appears to fallback automagicly to regular 3 way handshake |
// between bind and listen add setsockopt(tcp, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_FASTOPEN, &backlog, sizeof(backlog)) |
To enable TFO on the server machine, the kernel parameters need to be configured to support TCP_FASTOPEN in server mode. To enable it, run the following command as root:
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_fastopen=2 |
To act in pure server mode, set it to 2. If also running a TFO client on the machine, set it to 3.
More details from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt:
tcp_fastopen - INTEGER Enable TCP Fast Open feature (draft-ietf-tcpm-fastopen) to send data in the opening SYN packet. To use this feature, the client application must use sendmsg() or sendto() with MSG_FASTOPEN flag rather than connect() to perform a TCP handshake automatically. The values (bitmap) are 1: Enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client w/ MSG_FASTOPEN. 2: Enables TCP Fast Open on the server side, i.e., allowing data in a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the application before 3-way hand shake finishes. 4: Send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie availability and without a cookie option. 0x100: Accept SYN data w/o validating the cookie. 0x200: Accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present. 0x400/0x800: Enable Fast Open on all listeners regardless of the TCP_FASTOPEN socket option. The two different flags designate two different ways of setting max_qlen without the TCP_FASTOPEN socket option. Default: 1 Note that the client & server side Fast Open flags (1 and 2 respectively) must be also enabled before the rest of flags can take effect. See include/net/tcp.h and the code for more details. |