Why can some advanced ethernet NICs cause packet reordering?

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-255

  Wu, Wenji ^a   Demar, Phil ^a   Crawford, Matt ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

flow director; NIC; Packet reordering; TCP

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED NETWORKS; APPLICATION PROCESS; FLOW DIRECTOR; NETWORK DATA; NIC; PACKET REORDERING; RECEIVE PROCESSING; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; TCP;

ETHERNET; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 79951670940     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2011.122010.102022     Document Type: Article

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