[HECnet] Attaching to hecnet

[Johnny Billquist]

Kari Uusim  ki wrote:
On 30.6.2010 19:41, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Hi, Paul. I see that I'll have to be way more careful with how I choose
my words around you... :-)

Paul Koning wrote:
...
The 2.0.0 (phase IV) routing spec talks about the "on Ethernet"
cache
instead, and describes it in a way that makes it help only for
directly
attached nodes. The "previous hop" flavor was a generalization in,
I
think, 2.1.0 (Phase IV+).
Hmm, yuck. Now I'll have to try to remember some details, as well as
extrapolating some stuff.

No, as far as I can remember, the end-nodes will only remember (or
know)
of one level 1 router. It will pick the one with the highest priority
in
case there are more than one on the local segment. That will become
the
designated router, and will be used for all traffic I believe.

The way this works is that there are two multicast addresses used on
Ethernet segments. (Well, three later on, a separate one for all L2
routers.) One is "all routers", one is "all endnodes". Routers listen
to the first, endnodes to the second. Hellos are sent to "all routers"
so ONLY routers hear hellos. Both endnodes and routers send hellos
(different types). So routers build a list of all the nodes on each
interface. The routers on an Ethernet pick one to be the designated
router, and only that router sends a hello to "all endnodes". That's
how endnodes know the DR.

Not really.
end-nodes send endnode-hello messages to ab:00:00:03:00:00
l1 routers send router-hello messages to ab:00:00:03:00:00
l2 routers send router-hello messages to ab:00:00:03:00:00,
ab:00:00:04:00:00 and 09:00:2b:02:00:00 (exactly which of these last two
addresses are sent to seems to differ from node to node, and I haven't
figured out exactly how yet).

The multicast address AB   00   00   03   00   00 is to all Phase IV routers (=endnode hello)
The multicast address AB   00   00   04   00   00 is to all Phase IV endnodes
(=router hello)
All Level 1 and Level 2 routers should send router hellos to endnodes and endnodes should send endnode hellos so that routers know of all endnodes.

Sigh. Why don't people read what I write? Note that *all* machines sends hello messages to AB   00   00   03   00   00.
Only level 2 routers sends anything on any other address, but they send on AB   00   00   03   00   00 too.

	Johnny