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[gardo@vnet.ibm.com]

Eric,

>> Is there a need or requirement that some clients not participate in
>> the purge portion of NHRP?
>>
>
>Interesting question.  Do you suspect that I ask to dispense with
>acknowledgement so that I can ignore the protocol?

I suspect some clients would rather not receive a purge.
A server must keep state associated with each
server in order to perform a purge.  If a client informed the server
that it does not want to receive a Purge, then the server could drop
any state information that he would normally keep for that client for
the purge protocol.  A server may set different holding times in Replies
to clients that do not support the Purge versus those that do support
the Purge.

What do you think?

This was just a thought...  However, if we did such a think, maybe this
would solve the disagreements associated with purge acknowledgements and
the purge mask.

>
>  Eric Gray
>

Have a nice day!
-- Russell