> I've had two surprises trying to interoperate with hnetd.
> 
> 1. nncp-06 Section 10 says that the Version is 0.  hnetd sends and expects a 
> version field of 1.
> 
> 2. The same section says the following about versioning:
> 
>    Each node [...] MUST ignore (except for DNCP synchronization purposes)
>    any TLVs with a type greater than 32 published by nodes not also
>    publishing an HNCP-Version TLV or publishing such a TLV with
>    a different Version number.
> 
> However, this is not what hnetd does -- if there is no Version TLV or the 
> Version is 0, it drops the node, which causes persistent desynchronisation of 
> DNCP state, which causes repeated Trickle timer resets, which sucks.

Good catch, I think we missed updating the software for these parts.
The behavior you've seen sounds like what historic version of the draft said.

I'll put it on our TODO.


Cheers,

Steven

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