Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks

2007-09-18 Thread Xin Liu
Sequence number has its own problems. Message sources have to remember sequence numbers even when it reboots or crashes. Message verifiers have to keep states too, and whenever the states go wrong due to attack or random errors, it's hard to detect and fix them. Best Regards, Xin Liu On

Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks

2007-09-18 Thread Xin Liu
s are synchronized and we have a mechanism to detect and fix out-of-sync clocks, is it reasonable to assume clock synchronization in the rest of our design? Best Regards, Xin Liu On 9/17/07, Bora Akyol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO: > > What ever solution you end up proposing shou

Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks

2007-09-17 Thread Xin Liu
granularity we can assume? Particularly, we are interested in whether we can assume router clocks are synchronized within 10 minutes. 3. It's always possible that a router's clock goes wrong. In practice, how often does this happen? Thank you for all the replies. Best Regards, Xin Liu

Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks

2007-09-17 Thread Xin Liu
rement for BGP routers on the Internet? We'd appreciate your input very much. It will help us understand what's practical and what's not in our work. Please reply to us directly. Thanks, Xin Liu

Question on Unrecognized BGP Path Attribute

2007-07-23 Thread Xin Liu
uch a case, what will the current routers from different vendors do? Anyone has any experience on this? Best Regards, Xin Liu