On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:50:33PM +0100, Toad wrote:
> Umm, no. Random first hop was introduced to avoid the network forking...
> anyway, how would this improve getting DBRs?

Ah yes, I was trying to remember why that was introduced.  Of course, 
the whole "network forking" danger was purely theoretical, and I never 
really thought that it was likely to happen in a real-world network.  It 
has certainly never been observed in practice or in simulation.

Ian.

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