Re: [Roll] Border router failure detection

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Pascal Thubert \(pthubert\) <pthubert=[e-mail]> wrote:
    > Since all DODAG paths lead to the corresponding LBR, detecting its
    > crash by a node entails dropping all parents and adopting an infinite
    > rank, which reflects the node's inability to reach the LBR.  However,
    > achieving this state for all nodes is slow, can generate heavy
    > traffic, and is difficult to implement correctly [Iwanicki16]
    > [Paszkowska19] [Ciolkosz19].
    > "

    > Please note that this may be what an implementation decides to do, but
    > is by far not my favorite option.

    > The alternate is to rest the "G" but and become floating root. The
    > benefit is that the DODAG structure is mostly maintained and that
    > routing inside may persist.

This works well for storing mode where one expects that all 6LR are pretty
much equivalently capable.

For Non-Storing Mode, it could be that only the LBR (and it's redundant
backup...), are capable of accepting the DAOs, maintaining that table and
generating the right routing headers.

Perhaps this is where the gap lies.

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