From: Janet Davis (jlnd_at_cs.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 20:14:26 PST
Your neighbor discovery solution should work with your flooding solution,
but neighbor discovery is not necessary to implement flooding. I'd
encourage you to use the broadcast address for flooding.
Cheers,
Janet
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Jeff Tyrrill wrote:
> 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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