Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> writes: > Oh? What is it then, if it's not spraying successive packets across > member links?
It sprays the packets more or less randomly across links, and each link then does individual buffering. It introduces an unnecessary random delay to each packet, when it could just place them successively on the next link. > Ummh, no, it won't. > > If it did, it would have been widespread. But it's not. It seems optimistic to argue that we have reached perfection in networking. The Linux TCP stack does not immediately start backing off when it encounters packet reordering. In the server world, packet-based round-robin is a fairly common interface bonding strategy, with the accompanying reordering, and generally it performs great.
