Comment by Sesse__
4 months ago
It is very rare that a single TCP connection will be load-balanced over multiple interfaces, since that would frequently cause out-of-order delivery, which sucks quite a lot if the receiver isn't prepared for it.
4 months ago
It is very rare that a single TCP connection will be load-balanced over multiple interfaces, since that would frequently cause out-of-order delivery, which sucks quite a lot if the receiver isn't prepared for it.
Isn't every TCP implementation required to deal with receiving packages out-of-order? That is one of the abstraction TCP provides.
Yes, but not performantly so. In particular, out-of-order delivery is likely to be seen as packet loss, signalling TCP to reduce the transfer speed in one way or the other.