Hi Constantine, > Toni, you are raising an interesting issue. However, if the sending routers > do not check whether an update is duplicate, and if the receiving > routers do not check whether an update is duplicate, don't we create > a positive feedback loop?
Yes, but I think it was obvious that the receivers DO check. If no one checked, then any update would propagate throughout the net. Yes, that would be VERY, VERY bad. Lixia's paper pretty clearly stated that they were only seeing duplicates go one hop. Tony _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list rrg@irtf.org http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg