Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 12:43:57 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP Window question Message-ID: <199604161943.MAA04554@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Apr 1996 11:07:11 EDT." <199604161507.LAA13784@etinc.com>
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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. The answer is yes, of course. BSD has a reassembly queue for packets and delivers the packets to the application in byte-sequential order. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Projecthelp
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