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Re: packet reordering at exchange points

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Mon Apr 08 17:43:51 2002 
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > packet reordering at MAE East was extremely common a few years ago. Does
> > anyone have information whether this is still happening?
>
> more to the point, does anybody still care about packet reordering at
> exchange points?  we (paix) go through significant effort to prevent it,
> and interswitch trunking with round robin would be a lot easier.  are
> we chasing an urban legend here, or would reordering still cause pain?

Packet re-ordering would still cause pain if it started re-appearing
again at high levels.