From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: "Majumder, Rajib" <rajib.majumder@credit-suisse.com>
Cc: "'netdev@vger.kernel.org'" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: UDP Out 0f Sequence
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:47:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45117086.6080406@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F444CAE5E62A714C9F45AA292785BED30EB97591@esng11p33001.sg.csfb.com>
Majumder, Rajib wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I write UDP datagrams 1,2 and 3 to network and if the receiver
> receives in order 2,1, and 3, where can the sequence get changed? Is it
> at the source stack, network transit or destination stack?
Yes. :)
Although network transit is by far the most likely case. Destination
stack is a distant second and source stack an even more distant third.
Generally stack writers try to avoid having places in their stacks where
things can reorder, but it isn't completely unknown.
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-20 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-20 7:13 UDP Out 0f Sequence Majumder, Rajib
2006-09-20 13:43 ` kc
2006-09-20 16:47 ` Rick Jones [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-21 2:50 Majumder, Rajib
2006-09-21 3:51 ` David Miller
2006-09-21 3:59 ` Ian McDonald
2006-09-21 3:55 Majumder, Rajib
2006-09-21 16:42 ` Rick Jones
2007-09-28 17:22 ` Randy Macleod
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