"David S. Miller" wrote: > From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> > > Okay, that makes me even more curious why we don't send successive > packets out successive pipes in a bonded link. > > This is not done because it leads to packet reordering which > if bad enough can trigger retransmits. > > Scott Feldman's posting mentioned this, as did one other I > think. I did see those posts, but then I saw yours on how the linux receive end does the right thing with regards to reordering, and that confused me. So if I have it right linux-linux could theoretically work okay with a single stream over multiple links (potentially causing lots of reordering), but linux-router would not work well. Chris - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html