Re: Message Sequence Integrity

Hi,

Re:

>At 7:06 AM 2/16/96, Trevor Richards wrote:
>>Incidentally, X.25 and interconnected VANs can lead to interchange N+1
>>arriving before interchange N in todays' communications infrastructure.
>
>        Interesting.
>
>        X.25 is a connection protocol that is defined to deliver packets in
>order, over the same path (unlike IP.)
<

I would doubt, very much, that this is due to X.25 per se, rather
that it is an artifact of the store-and-forward system used by the VAN and
its retry algorithm.

Mark