[PATCH] babel: Keep separate auth PC counters for unicast and multicast

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 08:05:41PM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> > I think that simple sequence numbers work in two cases - if there is
> > sufficient interval between packets, or there is only one packet
> > flying (e.g. LSREQ-LSUPD ping-pong in OSPF). That is approach used in
> > OSPFv2 and OSPFv3, but that is not true in Babel.
> 
> Well, in practice it seems at least the Linux stack is pretty good at
> not reordering packets across a single hop, which means that this patch
> seems to fix the original issue that sparked this whole discussion. So I
> figured I'd send this one first to get the immediate issue on WiFi
> resolved, and follow up with the window tracking stuff later, once I've
> figured out why it breaks stuff...

OK, i see that fixing the immediate issue is a good idea, will merge.

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