Re: DC RFC 1793: Nbr changing DC bit

[Zengjie Kou <kouzengjie at HUAWEI.COM>]

hi,Mitchell 

    The idea is good, but not necessary. Before nbr state machine reaches "Full", the check is not needed.

Thanks
Kou.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erblichs" <erblichs at EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <OSPF at PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 11:15 AM
Subject: DC RFC 1793: Nbr changing DC bit


> Group,
> 
> 1) If a P2P nbr enables the DC bit,
> after full adj, SHOULD hello suppression occur, if
> that were the only item preventing hello suppression?
> 
> IMO, This is a grey area because the nbr state
> machine on the nbr transition to full state is really
> the only place where we need to check the
> value of what the nbr specified for the hello option.
> 
> Versus a need to check each hello for the setting of
> this bit, since in this 2nd case we make the assumption 
> that the value is volitile.
> 
> Mitchell Erblich