[46699] in North American Network Operators' Group
packet reordering at exchange points
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Apr 8 17:31:13 2002
From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
of "Mon, 08 Apr 2002 18:03:40 +0200."
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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 14:18:52 -0700
Message-Id: <20020408211852.41B0628E19@as.vix.com>
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> 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?