Henner,
On 24 Sep 2000, Henner Eisen wrote:
> keep in mind (see our last thread) that some protocols require
> packet ordering to be preserverved. As long the packet scheduler is the
> only instance which can possibly re-order packets, such protocols can
> take appropriate actions such that the packet schedulers won´t
> perform re-ordering. If you had additional re-ordering inside the driver,
> things would become even more complictated.
Actually, this is not re-ordering per-se. This would be done _per-flow_
and not with packets within the same flow.
i.e certain flows are more important than others and would skip FIFO queue
rules. But Donald pointed some issues with the scheme which i agree with.
cheers,
jamal
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