[76671] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anycast 101
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon Dec 20 11:40:44 2004
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:40:16 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <B0011CC0-5282-11D9-B673-000A95CD987A@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >but so far nobody has said "yes, what Iljitsch is describing should
> >work."
>
> Apparently you also didn't get any pointers to RFCs or other
> authoritative sources that say "each and every packet injected into the
> internet must be delivered in sequence".
er... please quote chapter/verse here.
these are "packets" and have sequence numbers
-BECAUSE- they may not be received in order.
the end-system must be designed to place the
packets back in order before presenting the
data to the application.
e.g. this is not a circuit switched network.
--bill
