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Yeah, which is imperfect but there you are. It means sometimes out-of-order packets will be reordered, and sometimes dropped (since TCP acked it, the (existing) TCP code will discard the out-of-order packet as 'duplicate'. Which turns out works pretty well in practice, since out-of-order are almost always in a burst (no delay inter-packet)


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