Re: LMP & neighbor discovery

[Yangguang Xu <xuyg@lucent.com>]

Dimitri,


> In LMP the VERIFY ID object seems to correspond to the
> Node ID that you require; in fact from its definition:
> 
> "The VERIFY_ID object contains a node-unique value that is
> assigned by the generator of the BeginVerifyAck message.
> This value is used to uniquely identify the Verification
> process from multiple LMP neighbors and/or parallel Test
> procedures between the same LMP neighbors."
> 
> This i-d can be used for the purpose you have mentioned.
> p54 of the same document gives also you more information
> on this.

I thought about this, yet, it doesn't seem to work. Indeed, both Michiel and
Jonathan pointed me the case that when two NEs have parallel TE links, you need
different verify IDs.

Yangguang