Re: [manet] DYMO and other routing protocols

[David Young <dyoung at pobox.com>]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:54:00AM -0400, Herbert Rubens wrote:
> 	It appears that when a link fails on an active link-state path, you
> technically can't be routing reliably without a flood propagating the entire
> network.

As a practical matter, you do not ordinarily need to flood the
entire network following a change of linkstate.  You do need to
flood the region a few hops in diameter where most loops occur.  See
<http://www.ir.bbn.com/documents/techmemos/TM1301.pdf> for a discussion.

Dave

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David Young             OJC Technologies
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