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ACK of purge packets

  • From: gardo@vnet.ibm.com
  • Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 08:35:12 EST
  • cc: rolc@nexen.com, genecox@vnet.ibm.com
  • Ref: Your note of Tue, 14 Nov 1995 18:21:33 -0500
  • X-Orig-Sender: owner-rolc@nexen.com

Eric/Jim,

>>>  I think that you missed the point (maybe?); because of the scenario
>>>  in which a purge is not sent as a result of a component failure
>>>  (crash), a "reliable purge" is an unattainable goal.  This reduces
>>>  the purge protocol to the status of "optimization" and it no longer
>>>  makes sense to require purge originators to repeat purge messages
>>>  until they are acknowledged.

Is there a need or requirement that some clients not participate in
the purge portion of NHRP?

-- Russell