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From: "Angel Sastre" <ams50@bton.ac.uk>
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Subject: inside Ordering Tables
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 03:22:37 -0800
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hi!

this is a question regarding how ordering tables work.  It seems that a bit
of information is given on the green book but not as much as one would like.

By reading the green book I understand that:

-An ordering table is just an array of GsOT_TAG
-A GsOT_TAG is a structure made up by:
    unsigned p : 24
    unsigned char num : 8

the book says p is the OT ring pointer.....what is an OT ring pointer? it
would seem that this is actually pointing to a list of packets, but I can't
understand exactly how.

the book doesn't even explain what num is, and it is certainly beyond me.

could someone kindly explain with a bit more detail all these things?

also don't forget:
-How does it know how many packets there are in a given GsOT_TAG ?
-Why the need to have different packets in different GSOT_TAG ?  why just
not shove them all to the same one.

okay thanks a lot.

angel sastre
aka
reboot / incognita