In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Matt Buford" writes: > > > >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. >
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