From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Cusack Subject: Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:51:19 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030628155119.A15491@google.com> 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> <20030626190407.S87648@shell.cyberus.ca> <16124.11495.374998.153330@h006008986325.ne.client2.attbi.com> <20030627213846.V90398@shell.cyberus.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: James Carlson , "David S. Miller" , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, paulus@samba.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, fcusack@samba.org Return-path: To: Jamal Hadi Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030627213846.V90398@shell.cyberus.ca>; from hadi@shell.cyberus.ca on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:21:21PM -0400 Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:21:21PM -0400, Jamal Hadi wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, James Carlson wrote: > > > > Loss preserves ordering. To get misordering, you have to > > intentionally hold onto a message and reinsert it later. What I've > > And thats what i was implying. > In your above example: > > 1 2 4 5 6 > If the entity above the wire cared about packet 3 there will be a > retransmit. so it becomes: > > 1 2 4 5 6 3 Higher layer entities doing retransmits is not reordering. To the lower layer, it's just the next message. /fc