Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 11:06:50 +0100 From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: lukem.freebsd@cse.unsw.edu.au Cc: Marcos Bedinelli <bedinelli@madhaus.cns.utoronto.ca>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [fbsd] Re: [fbsd] Network performance in a dual CPU system Message-ID: <20060502100650.GB30251@uk.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605011117210.14405@wagner.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> References: <7bb8f24157080b6aaacb897a99259df9@madhaus.cns.utoronto.ca> <20060427093916.GC84148@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20060427145252.I75848@fledge.watson.org> <20060427143814.GD84148@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20060427154718.J75848@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605011117210.14405@wagner.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU>
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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 :-(
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