From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Subject: Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:18:20 -0400 (EDT) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030626190407.S87648@shell.cyberus.ca> References: <20030625.143334.85380461.davem@redhat.com> <20030626035824.D68B62C147@lists.samba.org> <20030625.205941.41631020.davem@redhat.com> <16122.53298.150512.793074@h006008986325.ne.client2.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "David S. Miller" , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, paulus@samba.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, fcusack@samba.org Return-path: To: James Carlson In-Reply-To: <16122.53298.150512.793074@h006008986325.ne.client2.attbi.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 ;->