Re: [Cse461] Neighbor discovery

From: Janet Davis (jlnd_at_cs.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 03 2004 - 13:10:33 PST

  • Next message: Abhinav Jain: "Re: [Cse461] Neighbor discovery"

    uOn Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Scott Ramsby wrote:

    > I thought this over again and I'm not sure we can eliminate the
    > discovery pings. Those can be used to gather information slowly about
    > our neighbors via their linkstate broadcasts and such, but not to drop
    > neighbors. We could time-out neighbors I suppose, but we have no idea
    > how long it might be before they have more information to advertise or a
    > packet to forward. Do we just assume that there will always be periodic
    > traffic and set our timeout to REALLY long or what? I realize in a real
    > network there will always be lots of traffic, but in our P2P thing,
    > without manual pings I have to rely on the other node's LinkState
    > broadcast timers, which I have no knowledge of the frequency.

    I think I spoke too soon on this particular issue... Your point is well
    taken. (Now I'd better go eat lunch before the low blood sugar makes me
    say dubious things.)

    Cheers,
    Janet 

    -- 
Janet Davis
jlnd_at_cs.washington.edu
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jlnd/
_______________________________________________
Cse461 mailing list
Cse461_at_cs.washington.edu
http://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cse461
  • Next message: Abhinav Jain: "Re: [Cse461] Neighbor discovery"

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Tue Feb 03 2004 - 13:10:36 PST