Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] improve netem reorder flexibility

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:32:40 -0800

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:18:37 +0100
Christian Samsel <[email-masked]> wrote:

> This patch adds a new feature to netem: The newly introduced parameter 
> reorderdelay TIME is the time a reordered packet is delayed. It can be used in
> a combination with delay TIME to enable netem to produce late packets, which is
> not possible in the standard netem / iproute2. In the standard version 
> reordered packets are always sent immediately and therefore are always early packets.

I like the idea but is it binary compatible with older kernels/ older iproute2
utilities?

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