[PATCH] babel: Initialise source seqno from incoming message

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> This has been clarified in RFC8966 as: "Note that the feasibility
> distance is not updated and the garbage-collection timer is not reset
> when a retraction (an update with infinite metric) is sent."
> 
> The feasibility distance is only updated if the metric is lower, which
> is never true for an (infinite-metric) retraction, so that's kinda
> implicit anyway.
> 
> We do actually update the garbage collection time regardless of the
> route metric in the regular update function (but not when sending an
> explicit retraction). I think that's OK, though?

Does that mean that a retracted route never expires?

-- Juliusz