[Cake] Proposing COBALT

[moeller0]

> On May 20, 2016, at 15:41 , David Lang <david at lang.hm> wrote:
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> On Fri, 20 May 2016, Jonathan Morton wrote:
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>> Normal traffic does not include large numbers of fragmented packets (I would expect a mere handful from certain one-shot request-response protocols which can produce large responses), so it is better to shunt them to a single queue per host-pair.
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> I don't agree with this.
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> Normal traffic on a well setup network should not include large numbers of fragmented packets. But I have seen too many networks that fragment almost everything as a result of there being a hop that goes through one or more tunneling layers that lower the effective MTU (and no, path mtu discovery does not always work)

	True, do you have a cheaper idea of getting the flow identity cheaply from fragmented packets, short of ressembly ;) ?

Best Regards
	Sebastian

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> David Lang