[c-nsp] Products for dealing with packet re-ordering?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:38:35PM +0000, James Bensley wrote:
> However, if this is in the DC, if you customer is creating a LAG
> between their DC switch and a carrier DC switch and you're proposing N
> links between the same two devices in the same two racks, and you have
> the exact same copper/fibre runs that are the same length etc., then I
> would expect the miss-ordering to be minimal (not zero but likely an
> amount deemed as acceptable). In this scenario with proper monitoring
> to keep tabs on it, I would expect no special hardware required.

If it's all IP traffic, things are not very problematic.

Stay away from SNA, though...  "a single re-ordered packet = session lost"

(FCoE might also have a hearty dislike for reordering, though I'm not
as sure on that)

Fun :)

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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