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

[Job Snijders]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 01:16:44AM +0200, Saku Ytti wrote:
> On 11 January 2018 at 01:02, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> > is that entirely true? misorder is not (should not be) immediately
> > interpretted as loss. it does imply loss and might encite an
> > implementation to ACK or duplicate ACK a preceding segment, but both
> > sides should wait a reasonable time based on observed RTO for
> > retransmission.
> >
> > so, if the implementation doesn't stink and the jitter isnt too bad ...
> 
> Implementation specific I'm sure. But at least the implementations
> I've used while testing reordering, namely Linux, are entirely
> intolerant to reorder, performance is immediately destroyed. I think
> Window is same too. 

Yes, this is the case for Windows too.

The effects of reordering seem to become progressively worse as the
latency between the two hosts increases.

Kind regards,

Job