) by chopin.merit.edu (MOS 3.8.2-GA) with ESMTP id AFJ88688; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:13:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [66.117.52.128] (unknown [66.117.52.128]) by srv013.carpathiahost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3509193780 for <nanog@merit.edu>; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:13:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4696B59E.9040900@kl.net> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:13:34 -0400 From: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070127) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu> Subject: Re: TCP congestion References: <796919.42253.qm@web30811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <922B68D8-BCB4-40B8-88 5A-2459BDFEDA34@muada.com> In-Reply-To: <922B68D8-BCB4-40B8-885A-2459BDFEDA34@muada.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu Precedence: bulk Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu X-Loop: nanog X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mozart.merit.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

How exactly are you going to get out-of-order packets over a single link?

There is a once popular router that has been known to do that in some configurations due to multiple paths within the device. - Kevin