[rbridge] loops in trill networks

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

--On tirsdag, oktober 11, 2005 11:17:48 -0700 Alia Atlas 
<akatlas at gmail.com> wrote:

> All the IETF protocols, I believe, are designed to withstand some packet
> reordering (and should, in my opinion, any well designed protocol).
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> Sure - anything on top of IP isn't an issue.  My concern was other stuff.


Reordering (anything that places a packet more than 3 places out of its 
proper position in the TCP stream) will trigger TCP duplicate acks, and 
therefore retransmissions.

These play hell with performance.

No numbers......