When R1 sends pkts at and they are timeout on reponse? It'll have to walk
its tables to find an alternative
party to crash.
At 10:54 AM 2/13/02 -0600, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>Thus spake "Ali Boudani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> If we have the following figure:
>>
>> R1-R2-R3-R
Thus spake "Ali Boudani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If we have the following figure:
>
> R1-R2-R3-R4 where R1 to R4 are unicast routers.
> R1 is sending packets to R4. If R4 goes down, when R1 will detect this??
> Before sending packets or after?
Your question presupposes that
Title: RE: Simple question
Ali -
Vernon's comments in his previous response were essentially correct and I was imprecise. If the failure of R4 takes down the link between R3 and R4 - the failure of the link will be immediately detected at R3 by virtually every protocol (except s
> From: Michel Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> There will always be a brief period of time immediately following the
> failure when R1 will blithely continue to forward packets oblivious to the
> loss of the R4. How long that period of time will be depends on which
> routing protocol the routers ar
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:49:16PM +0100, Ali Boudani wrote:
> If we have the following figure:
>
> R1-R2-R3-R4 where R1 to R4 are unicast routers.
> R1 is sending packets to R4. If R4 goes down, when R1 will detect this??
> Before sending packets or after?
>
This is ver
Title: RE: Simple question
Ali -
There will always be a brief period of time immediately following the failure when R1 will blithely continue to forward packets oblivious to the loss of the R4. How long that period of time will be depends on which routing protocol the routers are
If we have the following figure:
R1-R2-R3-R4 where R1 to R4 are unicast routers.
R1 is sending packets to R4. If R4 goes down, when R1 will detect this??
Before sending packets or after?
