[88215] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Split flows across Domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Jan 25 10:47:58 2006
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Matt Buford" <matt@overloaded.net>
Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>,
"Joe Abley" <jabley@isc.org>, "Robert E.Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>,
"Glen Kent" <glen.kent@gmail.com>, "NANOG list" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: (Your message of "Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:17:04 EST.")
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:46:52 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <0d2801c62152$4d32fd60$fe00000a@speedy>, "Matt Buford" writes:
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>Actually, TCP handles out of order packets rather well as long as the
>reordering isn't too severe. You see a bunch of SACKs flying around, but as
>long as it doesn't get too out of hand it doesn't affect throughput.
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Actually, it isn't that great. See draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-dcr-06 and its
references.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
