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

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 18:17, Paul Mackerras wrote:

James might be able to comment better than me on what will happen if
packets get reordered during the negotiation phase of a PPP
connection.  I think the worst is that some packets will have to be
retransmitted and thus the negotiation will take several seconds
longer than it needs to.

This is exactly what we're dealing with the current "bug"; the worst
case effect is a delay.  I don't think heroic measures are called for
the sake of this PPPoE issue alone.

-- 
Michal Ostrowski [off-list ref]