Split flows across Domains

Wed Jan 25 15:46:52 UTC 2006

In message <0d2801c62152$4d32fd60$fe00000a at speedy>, "Matt Buford" writes:
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>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.
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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