From: Jeff Tyrrill (mail_at_jeff-tyrrill.com)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 16:58:33 PST
It seems that we need to use BroadcastAddress in some form for neighbor
discovery; as the assignment points out, a given node has no knowledge of
any other nodes, and no way to establish initial communication, until a
broadcast packet is sent.
However, when performing flooding of packets, should we flood by sending to
the BroadcastAddress, or rather, do something like iterate over an internal
list of neighbors? Using the BroadcastAddress seems more straightforward,
but if that is the case, then the entire portion of the assignment for
maintaining a list of neighbors seems unnecessary to make the flooding work.
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