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.