From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 02:09:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F1B16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:09:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A439F43D53 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:09:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F957A403; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:09:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <41E5D852.8070609@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:09:22 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Dart References: <20050113013057.4D3E5F987@gemini.nersc.gov> In-Reply-To: <20050113013057.4D3E5F987@gemini.nersc.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP out-of-order packets. X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:09:23 -0000 Eli Dart wrote: >In reply to Julian Elischer : > > > > >>I have no control over or access to the link.. all I have is a promise >>that they will deliver >>14Mb/Sec. with approc 300mSec. RTT to me but there is no promise about >>packet order. >> >> > >My guess is that they are doing round-robin load balancing, instead >of per-flow load balancing. > >You may not have access to the link's config, but do you have someone >that you could ask to change the load-sharing algorithm? (I expect >you've thought of this, but figured I'd ask). If they are doing this >with the idea that one could get more than an E1's worth of bandwidth >out of a single flow, it sounds like they are misguided.... > well I've asked but I don't expect a quick answer.. > > --eli > > > > >>I just get a 100Mb ethernet cable. >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > > > >