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On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:38:39AM +1000, lukem.freebsd@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote:
> Would it be possible to improve the behaviour of the TCP protocol 
> implementation so that out-of-order reception was acceptable?

Possibly - but if your FreeBSD box is acting as a router, and it re-orders
packets in transit to the rest of the Internet, then in principle you'd need
to upgrade the TCP implementations on every other device in the Internet :-(