On Mon November 9 2009 15:31:16 Teco Boot wrote: > What if someone defines a reliable transport and suppress > repeating messages? > Are we sure we want to use missing sequence numbers as > indication of missed packets? > What if other reasons caused the loss, e.g. tail drop during > congestion caused by the MANET protocol itself? Packet Sequence numbers have the same "range" as a linklocal IP, so I don't see any problem with reliable transports. Such a transport would be built "below" packetbb, so the mechanism should be transparent to packetbb. Henning Rogge -- Diplom-Informatiker Henning Rogge , Fraunhofer-Institut für Kommunikation, Informationsverarbeitung und Ergonomie FKIE Kommunikationssysteme (KOM) Neuenahrer Straße 20, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany Telefon +49 228 9435-263, Fax +49 228 9435 685 mailto:henning.rogge at fkie.fraunhofer.de http://www.fkie.fraunhofer.de GPG: E1C6 0914 490B 3909 D944 F80D 4487 C67C 55EC CFE0
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