25 Jan
2006
25 Jan
'06
10:46 a.m.
In message <0d2801c62152$4d32fd60$fe00000a@speedy>, "Matt Buford" writes:
Actually, TCP handles out of order packets rather well as long as the reordering isn't too severe. You see a bunch of SACKs flying around, but as long as it doesn't get too out of hand it doesn't affect throughput.
Actually, it isn't that great. See draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-dcr-06 and its references. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb