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Re: packet reordering at exchange points

  • From: Jesper Skriver
  • Date: Tue Apr 09 01:10:37 2002 
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:18:52PM -0700, 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?

LINX uses Extreme swiches with round robin load-sharing among 4*GigE and
8*GigE trunks, no problems has been noted.

/Jesper

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