misordering packets [was [e2e] Link Aggregation]

[RJ Atkinson]

On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 11:57 America/Montreal, Reiner Ludwig 
wrote:
> An earlier study by J. C. R. Bennett, C. Partridge, and N. Shectman 
> ("Packet Reordering is Not Pathological Network Behavior") showed the 
> opposite (at one particular point in the Internet, the MAE-East 
> peering point): "We have found, however, that parallelism in Internet 
> components and links is causing packet reordering under normal 
> operation and that the incidence of packet reordering appears to be 
> substantially higher than previousl reported."
> (measurements from Dec. 1997 & Jan. 1998)

I believe the reordering observed at that time/place was a hardware 
implementation
problem in the switching fabric deployed as the MAE-E interconnect.  I 
believe
that no current interconnect is using that hardware any longer.

Ran