[Babel-users] babeld + quagga comment... on a commit

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:47:39 +0100, Dave Taht wrote:

> Is there a mailing list for comments on the babeld + quagga work?
> 
> My comment on this commit is:
> 
>  "Add, delete loses less packets than delete, add.
> 
>  What is bad about adding a route that is already in the kernel?"
> 
Without reading the code, I suspect if add doesn't tell you when it was
a no-op (because the route was already there), then you proceed to
delete, you end up with no route at the end of the operation.  And
you'll lose more packets than if you delete before add.

Cheers,
Julien