[nsp] MLPPP & Cisco

[Gert Doering]

hi,

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:26:54PM -0700, Voll, Scott wrote:
> I was going to implement MLPPP but was advice not to in my particular
> case.  I do a lot of Video conferencing so it would cause out of order
> packets.  

Ummm.  Out of order packets are mainly bad if they happen for a single 
data stream.  This is something MLPPP will never ever do - to the
contrary, one of the alternatives (per-packet CEF) is quite likely to do
that.

MLPPP might reorder the queue (as any type of QoS) but that will affect
different data streams, like "the voip packet goes before the FTP packet",
which the TCP stacks won't notice.

> So if you have applications that are sensetive to out of order
> packets I would not use it.  

This argument doesn't hold.

gert
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