On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Curtis Villamizar <[email protected]> wrote: > Henning, > > That sounds like a good strategy. Negotiating a rate among two > parties is not a hard protocol problem, nor is changing it. > > Note that PPP LQM (link quality monitoring) or MPLS-TP LM (loss > monitoring) is not probe data. For example, one cycle of LQM packet > every 10 seconds yields the exact number of packets sent and recieved > and the exact number dropped in both directions over a 10 second > period. One cycle is three packets, with two in one direction.
The Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (RFC 6130) has a similar mechanism... each node collects local link quality information and then shares them from time to time with all neighbors, which means everyone knows about both directions of a link. Henning Rogge _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
