[46720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: packet reordering at exchange points
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesper Skriver)
Tue Apr 9 01:08:52 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:08:15 +0200
From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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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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