From: Jamal Hadi <hadi@shell.cyberus.ca>
To: James Carlson <carlson@workingcode.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, paulus@samba.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
fcusack@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:18:20 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030626190407.S87648@shell.cyberus.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16122.53298.150512.793074@h006008986325.ne.client2.attbi.com>
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, James Carlson wrote:
> David S. Miller writes:
> If so, then that needs to be taken up with the manufacturer. That's a
> rather severe design flaw that will prevent such a card from ever
> being used for anything other than IP -- many other protocols *ASSUME*
> that packets on a single wire cannot be reordered, including SNA, PPP
> (!), and link aggregation, among others.
>
So what about packet being loss? Wouldnt that ensure reordering?
And there is no such thing as a lossless wire.
cheers,
jamal
PS:- Paulus i wasnt preaching getting rid of ppp/pppoe although its
a nice thouhgt. More fix linux pppd and pppoe ;->
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-26 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-25 7:24 [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP Rusty Russell
2003-06-25 11:19 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-25 13:21 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 13:42 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 15:45 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-25 17:27 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 22:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-25 22:56 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 16:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-25 16:22 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-25 16:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-25 17:07 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-25 17:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-25 18:00 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 22:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-25 22:53 ` Ben Greear
2003-06-25 21:33 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-25 22:06 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-26 1:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-26 3:57 ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-26 3:59 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-26 8:17 ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-26 8:55 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-26 10:47 ` James Carlson
2003-06-26 10:51 ` James Carlson
2003-06-26 23:18 ` Jamal Hadi [this message]
2003-06-27 11:39 ` James Carlson
2003-06-27 12:12 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-27 13:19 ` James Carlson
2003-06-27 14:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-27 15:27 ` James Carlson
2003-06-28 2:21 ` Jamal Hadi
2003-06-28 22:51 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-26 11:37 ` Michal Ostrowski
2003-06-25 16:01 ` Jason Lunz
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