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

[Jamal Hadi <hadi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, James Carlson wrote:

> David S. Miller writes:
> If so, then that needs to be taken up with the manufacturer.  That's a
> rather severe design flaw that will prevent such a card from ever
> being used for anything other than IP -- many other protocols *ASSUME*
> that packets on a single wire cannot be reordered, including SNA, PPP
> (!), and link aggregation, among others.
>

So what about packet being loss? Wouldnt that ensure reordering?
And there is no such thing as a lossless wire.

cheers,
jamal

PS:- Paulus i wasnt preaching getting rid of ppp/pppoe although its
a nice thouhgt. More fix linux pppd and pppoe ;->