[Olsr-dev] Bug in function olsr_tc_update_edge ?

[Henning Rogge]

Am Montag 18 Februar 2008 23:39:08 schrieb Hannes Gredler:
> hi eric,
>
> your observation is correct, now asking what is the right fix ?
>
> we are getting in the waters of system design here.
>
> the more interesting question to ask is why does a node
> emit a less than 10 percent change and flood the TC throughout
> the network in spite that everyone will not trigger a SPF
> calculation ?
>
> IMO the right thing to do, sender should hold-back the information
> locally and once the change is significant enough, flood it
If we do this we have problems with new nodes... if nodes hold their TCs back 
until a significant change, new nodes will not know this node until it 
release a TC.

Henning

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