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Re: Handling Packet Misordering?

Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> Sat, 07 September 2002 01:12 UTC

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At 02:39 AM 7/26/2002 +0100, Poh Tze Ven wrote:
>I believe packet misordering is not
>a pathological behaviour anymore

packet reordering has never been a pathological behavior. Any time IP 
routing comes up with a multipath route, or changes the route that it is 
using for a session, reordering can happen, and TCP should not break.

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