Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Mon Oct 27 18:23:01 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 m9S1N1FN027169 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:23:01 -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 m9S1Y1Y2018964 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:34:01 -0700 Message-Id: <200810280134.m9S1Y1Y2018964@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: not enough neighbors after soft restart Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:34:01 -0700 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > If the no of neighbors up are less than the min. neighbors then a node > does soft restart. And delete init_neighbor_list file. > what if , even after soft restart , the number of neighbors up are > less than min_neighbors, then what a node should do ? When it restarts, it's doing a JOIN, so it ignores MinNeighbors. During the JOIN, what matters is InitNeighbors. > Exit or try to send join requests continuously till it finds the > enough number of neighbors ? This JOIN is no different than other JOINs! -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu