Ben Greear wrote:
>
> The more I look, the weirder it seems..but I may be mis-interpreting 
> things.

It really takes some visualization to get through, I sat up with a good 
book on graph theory to work it all out. "Introduction to Graph Theory" 
by Trudeau is really good to have around.

Some of the naming in the RFC is counterintuitive.  E.g. an MPR set is 
the set of relays chosen by the local node, an MPR selector set is the 
set of neighbours which choose the local node as a relay.

All of this is happening in near-real-time, or at least as close to real 
time as you can get with the link state update quantization. So the 
regression tests can sometimes fail on slow machines due to timer aliasing.

>
> The code looks quite tricky..and reading the pertinent subsection of 
> the RFC
> is not helping too much.

No worries. I had to read it about 3 times incrementally before it sank 
in, and even then I had what you might call a minor nervous breakdown.

cheers,
BMS

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