Re: ACK of purge packets

Andrew Smith <asmith@baynetworks.com> Thu, 16 November 1995 19:39 UTC

Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 11:18:10 PST
Sender: ietf-archive-request@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US
From: Andrew Smith <asmith@baynetworks.com>
Message-Id: <9511161918.AA01520@milliways-le0.engwest>
To: gardo@vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: ACK of purge packets
Cc: rolc@nexen.com
Precedence: bulk

> From owner-rolc@nexen.com Thu Nov 16 10:42:25 1995
> From: gardo@vnet.ibm.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 13:03:35 EST
> To: gray@ctron.com
> Cc: rolc@nexen.com, genecox@vnet.ibm.com
> Subject: ACK of purge packets

Russell,

> I suspect some clients would rather not receive a purge.
> A server must keep state associated with each
> server in order to perform a purge.  If a client informed the server
> that it does not want to receive a Purge, then the server could drop
> any state information that he would normally keep for that client for
> the purge protocol.  A server may set different holding times in Replies
> to clients that do not support the Purge versus those that do support
> the Purge.
> 
> What do you think?

Options are bad. Just implement it and the rest of the network will
thank you for it.

> -- Russell
> 

Andrew


********************************************************************************
Andrew Smith					TEL:	+1 408 764 1574
Technology Synergy Unit				FAX:	+1 408 988 5525
Bay Networks, Inc.				E-m:	asmith@baynetworks.com
Santa Clara, CA
********************************************************************************