[c-nsp] Handling Out of order packet

Justin M. Streiner streiner at cluebyfour.org
Mon Apr 4 11:21:58 EDT 2011


On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, arulgobinath emmanuel wrote:

> When trying to load balance through 2 Ethernet paths  (jitter 4ms - 10ms and
> delay 10ms)  using per packet load  sharing severely impact the throughput.
> (eg per path 90Mbps but when enabling both paths 30mbps ) . I suspect the
> issue due to the out of order packet. Is there any way similar to MLPPP that
> can handle the out of order packet in Ethernet environment.

You're probably going to need to use per-flow load-sharing.  The 
possibility of having out-of-order packets is one of the downfalls of
per-packet load-sharing.

jms


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