[e-nsp] multicast packets reordering

Marcin Kuczera marcin at leon.pl
Fri Sep 19 08:02:00 EDT 2008


hello,

I'am testing IP TV using extreme core based on quite old, but
still alive Alpine3808,3804 and Summit5i switches.

At the moment, the test device generating multicast reports
is connected in this way:

source-->AlpineA-->RedBack(PIM)-->AlpineA-->AlpineB-->Summit48-->TestSystem.

TestSystem reports:
Sep 18 17:41:00 10.200.180.4 iperf: [ 3] 11310.0-11320.0 sec 2 datagrams
received out-of-order
Sep 18 17:41:30 10.200.180.4 iperf: [ 3] 11340.0-11350.0 sec 1 datagrams
received out-of-order
Sep 18 17:42:10 10.200.180.4 iperf: [ 3] 11380.0-11390.0 sec 2 datagrams
received out-of-order
Sep 18 17:42:40 10.200.180.4 iperf: [ 3] 11410.0-11420.0 sec 1 datagrams
received out-of-order
Sep 18 17:43:00 10.200.180.4 iperf: [ 3] 11430.0-11440.0 sec 1 datagrams
received out-of-order
Sep 18 17:44:20 10.200.180.4 iperf: [ 3] 11510.0-11520.0 sec 1 datagrams
received out-of-order
Sep 18 17:45:40 10.200.180.4 iperf: [ 3] 11590.0-11600.0 sec 2 datagrams
received out-of-order
Sep 18 17:45:50 10.200.180.4 iperf: [ 3] 11600.0-11610.0 sec 1 datagrams
received out-of-order
Sep 18 17:46:00 10.200.180.4 iperf: [ 3] 11610.0-11620.0 sec 3 datagrams
received out-of-order
Sep 18 17:46:10 10.200.180.4 iperf: [ 3] 11620.0-11630.0 sec 1 datagrams
received out-of-order
Sep 18 17:46:30 10.200.180.4 iperf: [ 3] 11640.0-11650.0 sec 1 datagrams
received out-of-order

looks nasty...

soft in Alpine 7.6.4.4
soft in RedBack 6.1.1.4

No multilinks...

Is there any possibility that Alpine does the reordering of packets ??
If yes, is there any solution to that problem ?

Reordering is common problem from the source side, but... I have 10x 
more reorders that others..

Regards,
Marcin


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