[openib-general] Re: [IPoIB] executing iperf over IPoIB causes to multicast (IP) packets to be recieved out-of-order

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Wed May 24 10:02:13 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: Re: [IPoIB] executing iperf over IPoIB causes to multicast (IP) packets to be recieved out-of-order
> 
> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 11:51, Dotan Barak wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > when executing iperf over IPoIB with multicast IP packets, there are some packets that being received out of order.
> 
> With IPmc, there is no ordering guarantee. I'm not sure what your
> network configuration is exactly and whether this could be related or
> whether a dropped packet is being reported as out of order.

This is on back to back. I don't think hardware does this - this is
ipoib software thing.

-- 
MST



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