[c-nsp] Troubleshoot UDP out-of-sequence

Matthew Huff mhuff at ox.com
Mon Sep 12 17:27:11 EDT 2011


I have also run into some hosts with optimized udp offloading and/or streams offloading that will send a small percentage of packets outbound out of order, especially on hosts that have IRQ balancing algos. So if the host is out of order....



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> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 4:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Troubleshoot UDP out-of-sequence
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> On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:08 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
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> > If the application relies on 100% in-order delivery, it shouldn't be using straight UDP.
> 
> Or, it should have reasonable error-correction/tolerance for out-of-order packets.
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> ;>
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