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Subject: Re: CS551 final1 - Notify
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:35:37 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > When would we be needed to send notify messages ?
  > 
  > The only times I can think of are when a user types the shutdown command or
  > when the Auto-shutdown timer runs out. Is there any other place where we
  > would need to send notify messages ?

I'm not sure why you said that.  The spec says:

    The notify message is used by a node to inform its
    neighbor that it is about to close the connection.

It doesn't matter why you are closing the connection!
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>



  On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>wrote:
  > Someone wrote:
  >
  >  > For notify message, what is the 'error code' field when auto shutdown?
  >
  > I would use 1 or 3.  (The actual code is not used by anything
  > else, so the value shouldn't really matter to anyone!  You
  > can just choose something that you think is the closest.)
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  > Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>