Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Nick Hilliard wrote:

> > the proper thing to do is to use the links with round robin
> > fashion without hashing. Without buffer bloat, packet
> > reordering probability within each TCP connection is
> > negligible.
>
> Can you provide some real world data to back this position up?

See, for example, the famous paper of "Sizing Router Buffers".

With thousands of TCP connections at the backbone recognized
by the paper, buffers with thousands of packets won't cause
packet reordering.

> What you said reminds me of the old saying: in theory, there's no 
> difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.

In theory, you can always fabricate unrealistic counter examples
against theories by ignoring essential assumptions of the theories.

In this case, "Without buffer bloat" is an essential assumption.

                                                Masataka Ohta