Mitchell, > Let me take the 2nd item: > > Independent of LLS, OSPF uses the IP protocol, and the IP protocol is > a best effort protocol. Second, even if the OSPF pkt is delivered to > a destination, the network interface may itself drop and or reject it, > because of exaustion of resources, i.e, recv descriptors and / or > socket or mbuf network buffers. > > This is even before the destination's OSPF recv's the pkt.
Ok. I interpreted this as saying that while the receiver may receive the Hello packet, it may still not be able to receive the LLS data, which got me intrigued. Glen _______________________________________________ OSPF mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf
