Delivery-Date: Tue Oct 28 07:42:25 2008
Message-Id: <200810281453.m9SErWNc028976@bourbon.usc.edu>
To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu
Subject: Re: not enough neighbors after soft restart
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:53:32 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > you mentioned that "After you get join responses, you
  > wait for JoinTimeout (or <Cntrl+C>"
  > so, if i get a ctrl + c, when i still getting all the join reponses or
  > fiding my neighbors, what should i do ?
  > 1. the node which wants to join the network, goes down ?  or
  > 2. the node considers only the responses it received till that time and
  > based on that joins the servant or goes down ?

Please see:

    http://merlot.usc.edu/cs551-f08/projects/final-faq.html#cntrl_c

  > also,i had a question about the general sequence of events that will happen
  > when you start the program by
  > "sv_node <startup.ini>".
  > the node will perform all its functions i.e. join, hello etc. and finally
  > when it becomes an active node in the network, we give the user the prompt
  > where he/she can enter the commands he/she wants to execute.
  > in the background it will still be doing its functions like keepalive, check
  > etc., now in the course of time if it finds that it needs to go down due to
  > some reason then should it display a message to the user that it needs to
  > shutdown due to xyz reason and shut itself down.
  > 
  > the above execution will however differ when it is a beacon or non beacon
  > but in general terms is this how a node should work ?

Pretty much!  The difference between a beacon and a non-beacon
node is fairly minor.
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>