On Wednesday, 18 October 2006 05:25, David Miller wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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.
I've tried to put ccrypt handlers as close to hardware xmit and recv as possible so local reorder doesn't matter. Medium doesn't reorder frames and switches, bridges shouldn't do that neither (but as Stephen J. Bevan said this may not be always true). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
