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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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Subject: Re: TCP Window question
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> >> Will BSD TCP accept packets received out of order? If so, how does it
> >> handle delayed delivery to upper layers, and how long does it wait
> >> for the missing data?
> >
> >If you are truly interested in this, you're best bet would be to be the
> >Stevens Network book, Volume II, which goes into great detail on
> >subjects such as this.
> 
> Im aware of the theory....I was asking about the actual implementation.
> Some implementation seem to work much better than others.

Volume II of the Steven's book goes into great detail about the
implementation of the 4.4BSD network stack.  Basically, it's a
line-by-line explanation of the code.  So, it would be a description of
our actual implementation.


Nate