Split flows across Domains

Joe Abley jabley at isc.org
Wed Jan 25 02:23:17 UTC 2006



On 24-Jan-2006, at 14:17, Matt Buford wrote:

> Actually, TCP handles out of order packets rather well as long as  
> the reordering isn't too severe.

There's packet reordering, and there's oscillating RTT on segments  
that travel by different paths.

I suspect the veracity of your statement depends (a) on whose  
implementation of TCP you're using, and (b) what exactly you mean by  
"rather well".


Joe




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