Thanks Phil! 2008/8/5 Philip Levis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Aug 4, 2008, at 5:26 PM, John Hendrie wrote: > > > Thanks for the explanation. > > > > I have another question about sequence numbers. What happens when > > the sequence number overflows? I can't see anything in the code that > > deals with wrapping. Does Drip assume that the sequence number will > > never wrap? > > Yes, it does. You can only change a variable 65,535 times. If this is > an issue, you can use 32-bit sequence numbers, at which point it will > take 248 days (at 200 packets per second) to even increment across all > 32 bits. But this would cost an extra 2 bytes/variable, and we thought > 65,535 was sufficient for almost all reasonable cases. > > Phil > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help >
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