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Packet out of order
Avatarati Koba
Registered User
Join date: 5 Jul 2007
Posts: 7
07-06-2007 17:19
I often notice this pattern of messages in my console output.

checkPacketInID: packet_out_of_order - got packet 9961 expecting 9446 from IP:port
checkPacketInID: packet_out_of_order - got packet 10244 expecting 10034 from IP:port
checkPacketInID: packet_out_of_order - got packet 10496 expecting 10348 from IP:port


I have a packet filter firewall which I'm not using at the moment for packet normalization. I was wondering if scrubbing the incoming connection to reassemble fragmented packets will eventually become necessary.
Lee Ponzu
What Would Steve Do?
Join date: 28 Jun 2006
Posts: 1,770
07-07-2007 01:37
I could be wrong, but I don't think packets are ever guaranteed to arrive in order. if they are UDP, they do not need to be assembled, and if they are TCP your network layer will assemble them for you.