North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: packet reordering at exchange points
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:19:56PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > > But how is packet reordering on two parallell gigabit interfaces ever > > going to translate into reordered packets for individual streams? Packets > > Queue depths. Varying paths. IIRC, 802.3ad DOES NOT allow round > robin distribution; it uses hashes. Sure, hashed distribution > isn't perfect. But it's better than "perfect" distribution with > added latency and/or retransmits out the wazoo. You don't even need varying paths to create a desynch, all you need is varying size packets. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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