[46705] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: packet reordering at exchange points
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Apr 8 18:15:32 2002
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:36:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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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.
