Hi Jarno,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11 Sep 2002: > IP has never promised to not reorder packets. I do not > think we need to build in any guarantees now either. It is not a matter of having IP guaranteeing packet sequence, but rather to keep packet reordering limited to avoid bothering TCP too much. I think there is a big difference between IP packets beeing reordered by (hopefully not too frequent) route change transcients or being reordered because a load balancer scatters a flow on different routes on a per packet basis. I believe a good IP network should avoid the latter as much as possible. Robert -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
