[Babel-users] Some notes on seqno requests in Babel

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Sun Oct 29 11:38:26 UTC 2017


Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr> writes:

>>> Toke, David, what do you guys think -- shall we leave this undefined, or
>>> should we add some values?
>
>> Hmm, suppose it wouldn't hurt to add it to appendix B?
>
> Add what?  The values used by babeld?  The values used by BIRD?  The
> optimal values determined through careful testing?

The other values in the appendix are from babeld, aren't they?

> I've done a fair amount of testing that the mechanism itself is
> effective, but I've never done testing with differing timeout values,
> my assumption being that it doesn't matter.

Well, an explicit note to that effect would also be useful I guess (the
text in the main spec that says something like "a small number" sort of
makes this implicit, but spelling it out may be useful)?

-Toke



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