Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Sun Oct 26 14:10:51 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m9QLApCF010048 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:10:51 -0700 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m9QLLXMm022208 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:21:33 -0700 Message-Id: <200810262121.m9QLLXMm022208@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: FInal Project Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:21:33 -0700 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > In between the join phase and the hello phase to any notify messages need to > be exchanged it doesn't seem to specify in the spec? During the join phase, you don't need to send notify messages on these temporary connections. > Does a Beacon Node have an init_neighbors_file since it is implicit? No. The "initial neighbors" of a beacon node are all the other beacon nodes. > It seems like there can bee weird arrangements between number of beacon > nodes, min neighborsand init_neighbors? Num Beacon Nodes has to be greater > than min neighbors? If you don't have less than initneighbors responses but > more than min neighbors is that okay? Yes, there can be cases where you may not be able to go forward. You just need to follow the spec. For a regular node, if it cannot get >= InitNeighbors number of join responses, it should just give up. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Cheng [mailto:william@bourbon.usc.edu] > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:44 PM > To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu > Subject: Re: FInal Project > > Someone wrote: > > > When only 2 nodes are connected to each other, and one node sends a > > status request, does the second node reply back with any data as it is > > only connected to the node it received the status request from? > > Yes. A node must put *all* its neighbors in a status response message. > -- > Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu