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authorToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>2022-12-24 15:47:11 +0100
committerOndrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org>2022-12-24 15:52:12 +0100
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treeb2b3048c84185161759332776a95b3ebbf1ec9c7 /sysdep/unix/Makefile
parent2b7643e1f8ecb0bd4cf9af4183b4fd53b655d19c (diff)
Babel: Rework seqno request handling
The seqno request retransmission handling was tracking the destination that a forwarded request was being sent to and always retransmitting to that same destination. This is unnecessary because we only need to retransmit requests we originate ourselves, not those we forward on behalf of others; in fact retransmitting on behalf of others can lead to exponential multiplication of requests, which would be bad. So rework the seqno request tracking so that instead of storing the destination of a request, we just track whether it was a request that we forwarded on behalf of another node, or if it was a request we originated ourselves. Forwarded requests are not retransmitted, they are only used for duplicate suppression, and for triggering an update when satisfied. If we end up originating a request that we previously forwarded, we "upgrade" the old request and restart the retransmit counter. One complication with this is that requests sent in response to unfeasible updates (section 3.8.2.2 of the RFC) have to be sent as unicast to a particular peer. However, we don't really need to retransmit those as there's no starvation when sending such a request; so we just change such requests to be one-off unicast requests that are not subject to retransmission or duplicate suppression. This is the same behaviour as babeld has for such requests. Minor changes from committer.
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