> On Aug 4, 2015, at 3:29 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca> wrote: > > > Dino Farinacci <farina...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Links and boxes should not go down often in a homenet, so there >> won't >> be a high-rate of packets. This, I believe is a safe assumption. The > > I don't agree. > > Cables are plugged and unplugged on a regular basis, and unplug/replug is a > good first "what's wrong with my network" before going to see if the DSL > model is still alive... Now you wonder what the cable on my laptop has to do > with Homenet... well, because my laptop is running virtual machines, and > since I want them on the network, I'd have a homenet daemon on my laptop. > What you describe isn’t “often” on the timescales of the distributed protocols. A human can only plug and unplug things on timescales of seconds, not milliseconds, and I think Dino was referring to high-fequency non-human events that can cause links and boxes to flap.
I can’t say for certain, but my old ISIS code would certainly not be unhappy with up/down events on the order of one every second or a few seconds. > Lots of non-technical people unplug all the cables from their router in order > to power cycle it, because... who knows which wire is the important one? > > Old people are never quite sure if the RJ45 is seated properly, I've noticed, > so they might replug each cable a few times over a one minute interval. > > > -- > Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works > -= IPv6 IoT consulting =- > > > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > homenet@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
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