[PATCH] babel: Keep separate auth PC counters for unicast and multicast

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Thu Jan 26 11:42:33 CET 2023


Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 08:05:41PM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> > I think that simple sequence numbers work in two cases - if there is
>> > sufficient interval between packets, or there is only one packet
>> > flying (e.g. LSREQ-LSUPD ping-pong in OSPF). That is approach used in
>> > OSPFv2 and OSPFv3, but that is not true in Babel.
>> 
>> Well, in practice it seems at least the Linux stack is pretty good at
>> not reordering packets across a single hop, which means that this patch
>> seems to fix the original issue that sparked this whole discussion. So I
>> figured I'd send this one first to get the immediate issue on WiFi
>> resolved, and follow up with the window tracking stuff later, once I've
>> figured out why it breaks stuff...
>
> OK, i see that fixing the immediate issue is a good idea, will merge.

Great, thanks!

-Toke



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