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| author | Geoff Goodell <goodell@eecs.harvard.edu> | 2005-01-20 07:49:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Geoff Goodell <goodell@eecs.harvard.edu> | 2005-01-20 07:49:57 +0000 |
| commit | dab63afe2f03ffb8be632cb8cedc0fabd1deb5b3 (patch) | |
| tree | f69ecdaf3949c5c0481eb8ee0f757e63a32b15dd /doc | |
| parent | 8acf5bed3c2d2ba09c747122ff61dc8aff11c20e (diff) | |
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added short note about route selection to dir-spec.txt
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diff --git a/doc/dir-spec.txt b/doc/dir-spec.txt index 4480f17b12..5007369476 100644 --- a/doc/dir-spec.txt +++ b/doc/dir-spec.txt @@ -167,4 +167,9 @@ router in transport domain B must have pushed its descriptor to a directory server in transport domain A, so that the directory server in transport domain A can use that router to reach the directory server in transport domain B. +When confronted with the choice of multiple different paths to reach the same +router, the Blossom nodes may use a route selection protocol similar in design +to that used by BGP (may be a simple distance-vector route selection procedure +that only takes into account path length, or may be more complex to avoid +loops, cache results, etc.) in order to choose the best one. |