[e2e] Is a non-TCP solution dead?

[alok]

> Or, put another way, if one end-system sends 20 related packets
> "in close succession" to another end-system 5 miles away, isn't it
> pretty likely that most of those 20 packets will traverse the same
> sequence of nodes?  Do we have any experience with architectures
> where each of the 20 packets traverses a *different* sequence of
> nodes?  Would there be much hope of the transmitting end-system
> pacing packets along those 20 independent paths in a reasonable
> way?
>


what if i say "i can assure that the flow will follow this path always"?..i
know this problem "of following any path to get there and hence out of
sequence" has been solved in the core networks.....

if each routing/switching node follows FIFO, you wont even need
PAD/sequencing then.....