On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, James Carlson wrote:

David S. Miller writes:
If so, then that needs to be taken up with the manufacturer.  That's a
rather severe design flaw that will prevent such a card from ever
being used for anything other than IP -- many other protocols *ASSUME*
that packets on a single wire cannot be reordered, including SNA, PPP
(!), and link aggregation, among others.

So what about packet being loss? Wouldnt that ensure reordering?
And there is no such thing as a lossless wire.

cheers,
jamal

PS:- Paulus i wasnt preaching getting rid of ppp/pppoe although its
a nice thouhgt. More fix linux pppd and pppoe ;->