> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of
> Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang

Jeffrey:

Hi!

...
> It is difficult to go into too much details, but there are real
> examples of true-broadcast radio networks where the bw/delay is
> different between different pairs of radios.

It is very tempting to use the model that you describe, but radio
networks can be "flimsy" because of interference, signal fading,
movement, etc..  The broadcast model for neighbor discovery/maintenance
can quickly become unusable for nodes that loose connectivity to the DR.
It is very easy to see how the same L2 media may provide nodes that
don't have the same view of the other nodes (not everyone is within
radio range of everyone else, for example).

This brings me to wanting to establish p2p adjacencies while using the
broadcast capabilities of the media to reach whoever is within
transmission range (to propagate Hellos and to flood LSAs).  The
recognition that the characteristics between nodes can be different
should also result in the recognition that the adjacencies between pairs
of nodes may not all have the same state at the same time.

My 1c.

Alvaro.

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