[rbridge] Consensus Check: Hellos

James Carlson james.d.carlson at sun.com
Thu Apr 17 05:10:02 PDT 2008


Anoop Ghanwani writes:
> (a) We clearly state that the intent for this
> is to detect connectivity issues.  In other
> words, this will not be used for forming 
> adjacencies (and there we will have something
> in the hello that distinguishes it from the
> hellos that are actually used to form adjacencies).

I agree that's the intent, but I see no reason to "have something" in
the hello to distinguish it.  Merely omitting the peer system IDs will
have the desired effect, and we shouldn't need any special changes.

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