From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC] Ethernet Cheap Cryptography Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:25:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20061017.202544.74747614.davem@davemloft.net> References: <200610151820.22867.dpc@asn.pl> <17717.40394.531846.695392@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dpc@asn.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:46276 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932066AbWJRDZj (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:25:39 -0400 To: stephen@dino.dnsalias.com In-Reply-To: <17717.40394.531846.695392@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: stephen@dino.dnsalias.com (Stephen J. Bevan) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:21:46 -0700 > * You write "frames will be delivered in order, so on the other side > IV can be always in sync." In fact, in addition to your comments, Linux can reorder packets locally within the system even within traffic for the same link. Any technology which absolutely requires in order packet delivery isn't going to work very well.