[c-nsp] Per packet load balancing with low latency applications

William willay at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 10:16:56 EST 2009


Hi Brad,

Thanks for your input.

Is there anything else I can use to achieve my goal? I'm pretty sure
getting a bigger circuit will be a last resort.

Regards,

W

2009/1/15 Brad Hedlund <brhedlun at cisco.com>:
> On 1/15/09 6:25 AM, "William" <willay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My
>> question is what would cause the packets to arrive out of sequence?
>
> Path #1 might have a little more congestion than Path #2, which would cause
> Packet #1 sent down Path #1 to sit in a buffer an extra millisecond or two
> than Packet #2 sent down Path #2 with no congestion.  This results in Packet
> #2 arriving at the destination before Packet #1.  The result of this being
> poor application performance.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brad Hedlund
> bhedlund at cisco.com
> http://www.internetworkexpert.org
>
>
>


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