TCP out-of-order packets.

[Julian Elischer]

Eli Dart wrote:

>In reply to Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> :
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>>I have no control over or access to the link.. all I have is a promise 
>>that they will deliver
>>14Mb/Sec. with approc 300mSec. RTT to me but there is no promise about 
>>packet order.
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>My guess is that they are doing round-robin load balancing, instead 
>of per-flow load balancing.
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>You may not have access to the link's config, but do you have someone 
>that you could ask to change the load-sharing algorithm?  (I expect 
>you've thought of this, but figured I'd ask).  If they are doing this 
>with the idea that one could get more than an E1's worth of bandwidth 
>out of a single flow, it sounds like they are misguided....
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well I've asked but I don't expect a quick answer..

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>>I just get a 100Mb ethernet cable.
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