I have a question in the Database Exchange/Loading process. RFC2328 section 10.9 page 105 says: "There should be at most one Link State Request packet outstanding at any one time."
I understand the reason behind having only one DD packet outstanding at any one time. But I don't understand why we need this requirement for LSA requests? There is no such requirement for LSA transmissions. LSA retransmissions have such requirement. RFC2328 13.6 page 155 says: "Another packet of retransmissions can be sent whenever some of the LSAs are acknowledged, or on the next firing of the retransmission timer." I think the convergence will be faster if we send as many LSA requests as we can in the loading process. Similar to what we do for LSA transmissions in the flooding process. So the LSA request requirement should change to: "Another packet of LSA request retransmissions can be sent whenever some of the LSAs that are requested are received, or on the next firing of the LSA request retransmission timer." Am I missing something? Thank you, Venkata. _______________________________________________ OSPF mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf
