Subject: Re: [PATCH, untested] Support for PPPOE on SMP

From: Frank Cusack <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:51:19 -0700

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:21:21PM -0400, Jamal Hadi wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, James Carlson wrote:
> >
> > Loss preserves ordering.  To get misordering, you have to
> > intentionally hold onto a message and reinsert it later.  What I've
> 
> And thats what i was implying.
> In your above example:
> 
> 1 2 4 5 6
> If the entity above the wire cared about packet 3 there will be a
> retransmit. so it becomes:
> 
> 1 2 4 5 6 3

Higher layer entities doing retransmits is not reordering.  To the lower
layer, it's just the next message.

/fc