[PATCH v5] babel: Rework seqno request handling

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Sat Dec 24 16:20:26 CET 2022



On 24 December 2022 16:02:26 CET, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 07:05:55PM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via Bird-users wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Thanks, merged:
>
>https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/commit/8b06a4d8af46511f0f8dbb8905afa88590a831b6

Awesome! Merry Christmas! :)

-Toke



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