Re: soft state (was Re: shim6 and bit errors in data packet headers

[marcelo bagnulo braun <marcelo@it.uc3m.es>]

El 27/05/2005, a las 17:26, Iljitsch van Beijnum escribió:

> On 27-mei-2005, at 17:10, marcelo bagnulo braun wrote:
>
> > > > well, this wouldn't really tell you that the path is working for 
> > > > sure, right?
>
> > > Node A could be sending and receiving while there is a failure, but 
> > > in that case, B wouldn't be receiving data. So if both sides do 
> > > this, it works well.
>
> > ok, but the one that needs to react is node A in this case, right? so 
> > how does node A finds out the problem?
>
> I would think that if one side triggers reachability testing, the 
> other side would also do it.

wouldn't this mean assuming bidirectional connectivity?

I mean, would also do this is the locators used in one direction differ 
from the ones used in the other direction?

Regards, marcelo


>  The probes in one direction can also function as replies in the other 
> direction, cutting down on the number of packets exchanged.