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From: markl@ALLSPICE.LCS.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Re: Acking out-of-order packets?
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Date: 4 Mar 88 19:23:47 GMT
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   Date: Fri, 4 Mar 88 09:59:41 CST
   From: "Stuart Levy" <slevy@uc.msc.umn.edu>

>   Be aware that packets may have other reasons for arriving out of order than
>   that they've followed multiple paths.

I recall that at one point Wideband Network BSATS also had a tendency
to re-order packets--by pushing to the end of the queue those packets
which had missed their satellite reservations.

markl

Internet: markl@ptt.lcs.mit.edu

Mark L. Lambert
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Distributed Systems Group

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