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Re: packet reordering at exchange points
From: Jesper Skriver <jesper () skriver dk>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:08:15 +0200
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:18:52PM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote:
packet reordering at MAE East was extremely common a few years ago. Does anyone have information whether this is still happening?more to the point, does anybody still care about packet reordering at exchange points? we (paix) go through significant effort to prevent it, and interswitch trunking with round robin would be a lot easier. are we chasing an urban legend here, or would reordering still cause pain?
LINX uses Extreme swiches with round robin load-sharing among 4*GigE and 8*GigE trunks, no problems has been noted. /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: FreeBSD committer @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
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- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Mathew Lodge (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Stephen Sprunk (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Stephen Sprunk (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Paul Vixie (Apr 10)
- RE: packet reordering at exchange points Jim Forster (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Craig Partridge (Apr 11)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Jesper Skriver (Apr 09)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Stephen Sprunk (Apr 08)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 09)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 08)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Jesper Skriver (Apr 08)
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