Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Thu Oct 30 18:23:55 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 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 m9V1Nt4l009309 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:23:55 -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 m9V1ZbPQ017520 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:35:37 -0700 Message-Id: <200810310135.m9V1ZbPQ017520@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: CS551 final1 - Notify Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:35:37 -0700 From: Bill Cheng 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! -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Bill Cheng 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.) > -- > Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu