Re: [Roll] Loop Free DODAG Repair Solution

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 01 August 2012 17:05 UTC

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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:05:54 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Roll] Loop Free DODAG Repair Solution
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>>>>> "Jianlin" == Jianlin Guo <guo@merl.com> writes:
    Jianlin> To repair DODAG, a node multicast a repair request (REQ)
    Jianlin> message. Upon receiving a REQ message, a neighboring node
    Jianlin> generates a repair response (REP) message if it has a

In a P2MP situation, I think that an end-node won't generate any
traffic, so it won't know that the DODAG is broken.  

How can the end-node know that it should effect repair?


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IETF ROLL WG co-chair.    http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/roll/charter/