From: Abhinav Jain (jain0122_at_cs.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 03 2004 - 13:18:14 PST
I suggest that solution to this is that all of us should set up the same LSP
broadcast frequency than we can definately drop neighbor discovery pings
ABhinav
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Davis" <jlnd_at_cs.washington.edu>
To: "Scott Ramsby" <sramsby_at_cs.washington.edu>
Cc: <cse461_at_cs.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:10 PM
Subject: 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
>
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