Comment by 1718627440
4 months ago
Isn't every TCP implementation required to deal with receiving packages out-of-order? That is one of the abstraction TCP provides.
4 months ago
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.