* Hasso Tepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-11-08 14:55 > Thomas Graf wrote: > > Then how are you going to implement OSPF which has its own link state > > detection? > > OSPF doesn't have any link state detection. If carrier is up, hello > packets are sent out to the interface, if carrier is down, no hellos. > With hellos adjacencies can be formed to exchange routing information. > I don't see any concept of "OSPF's own link state detection" here.
Yes there is, it's called neighbour probing. Link state updates are sent periodically and acked. It's there to handle crashed OSPF software and oversubscription. Then after DCs were introcued in rfc1793 it got unuseable and wasn't reintroduced until rfc3883, it's back there and in use. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
