RE: [RPRWG] Question about the Fairness Message
Zhou,
My impression is the following:
1) The source address of fairness messages identifies
which station provided that congestion information.
2) The TTL field indicates the number of hops from
the source.
Of course, (2) is dependent on not overloading TTL for
destination station addressing, which some folks (not me)
continue to advocate.
DVJ
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> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:47 AM
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> Subject: [RPRWG] Question about the Fairness Message
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> Hi,
> As defined in D0.2, the type A and type B fairness messages are
> sent out periodically to propagate fair rate information to
> upstream nodes. In another word, it means that all congested or
> uncongested nodes both send this fairness message onto the ring.
> Assume that one node received the fairness message from another
> node, but how could the node judge which node is congested ? And
> then how could the node get the number of hops to the congested node?
>
> Best Regards,
> X.B.Zhou
> PHD. of Tsinghua University
> email:xbzhou@xxxxxxx
> 2002-05-30
>