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Yep, but IP doesn't provide an ordering guarantee at the link level anyway, and higher-level protocols have sequence numbers so they can reassemble things correctly. If those higher-level mechanisms aren't up for the task of handling lots of small reorderings, that would obviously be an issue.


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