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Re: Split flows across Domains

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Wed Jan 25 10:50:32 2006 
In message <[email protected]>, "Matt Buford" writes:
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>Actually, TCP handles out of order packets rather well as long as the 
>reordering isn't too severe.  You see a bunch of SACKs flying around, but as 
>long as it doesn't get too out of hand it doesn't affect throughput.
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Actually, it isn't that great.  See draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-dcr-06 and its 
references.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb