[88206] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Split flows across Domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Jan 24 21:23:50 2006
In-Reply-To: <0d2801c62152$4d32fd60$fe00000a@speedy>
Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>,
"Robert E.Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>,
Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>, NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:23:17 -0500
To: Matt Buford <matt@overloaded.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 24-Jan-2006, at 14:17, Matt Buford wrote:
> Actually, TCP handles out of order packets rather well as long as
> the reordering isn't too severe.
There's packet reordering, and there's oscillating RTT on segments
that travel by different paths.
I suspect the veracity of your statement depends (a) on whose
implementation of TCP you're using, and (b) what exactly you mean by
"rather well".
Joe
