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On Oct 3, 2013, at 2:48 AM, Rajib Majila wrote:

Hi Acee/Arkko,

I had a few questions/comments on your draft. Please find them below and 
clarify.

1.    On using asynchronous hello/dead interval: Are you suggesting 
implementing the LLS for supporting
 async hello/dead interval as mentioned in in your reference [ASYNC-HELLO].

No

As I understand it may not
be necessary as you are simply suggesting allowing a per neighbor hold timer 
timer based on the
 hello/dead interval advertised by the neighbor in its hello packet.

Yes


2.    Router-id selection: It would probably be better to use a mechanism that 
would most likely provide
a unique id instead of a pseudo-random number. It can be a 32 bits hash of the 
router-hardware-
fingerprint as suggested in your draft. A regeneration of router-id can 
possibly use a different hash
function in case a collision was detected. Given that this fingerprint is used 
even for detection of
duplicates, I believe it can be expected to generate unique router-ids quite 
reliably.

The pseudo-random number generation is seeded with an ID such as the 
router-hardware-fingerprint.



3.    Duplicate router-id detection: Can a self originated hello packet be 
identified by looking at the source
IPv6 address and comparing the same against the IP addresses of the local 
interfaces. If you do not see
any issue with this approach, it can eliminate the need to have a new LSA and 
thereby simplifying the
implementation.

Hello are only exchanged between adjacent neighbors.  The router-id must be 
unique within the entire OSPF routing domain.

Acee


Rajib


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