From: shmulik.hen@intel.com Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:38:02 +0200 (IST) Balancing is connection oriented (e.g. by IPv4 destination address) so packet order is always kept. You could also key off of the destination/source port as well for UDP/TCP/SCTP. Have you experimented with this? - : 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