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Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?
From: Benny Lyne Amorsen <benny+usenet () amorsen dk>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 10:45:54 +0200
Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> writes:
Oh? What is it then, if it's not spraying successive packets across member links?
It sprays the packets more or less randomly across links, and each link then does individual buffering. It introduces an unnecessary random delay to each packet, when it could just place them successively on the next link.
Ummh, no, it won't. If it did, it would have been widespread. But it's not.
It seems optimistic to argue that we have reached perfection in networking. The Linux TCP stack does not immediately start backing off when it encounters packet reordering. In the server world, packet-based round-robin is a fairly common interface bonding strategy, with the accompanying reordering, and generally it performs great.
Current thread:
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?, (continued)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? David Bass (Sep 06)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Saku Ytti (Sep 07)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Mark Tinka (Sep 07)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Fred Baker (Sep 08)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Masataka Ohta (Sep 07)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Benny Lyne Amorsen (Sep 07)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Saku Ytti (Sep 07)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Masataka Ohta (Sep 07)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Mark Tinka (Sep 07)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Saku Ytti (Sep 07)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Benny Lyne Amorsen (Sep 09)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Randy Bush (Sep 09)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Mark Tinka (Sep 09)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Dave Cohen (Sep 09)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Mark Tinka (Sep 09)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Saku Ytti (Sep 10)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Mark Tinka (Sep 06)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Mark Tinka (Sep 06)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Masataka Ohta (Sep 06)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Nick Hilliard (Sep 03)
- Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? Masataka Ohta (Sep 03)