[Nfd-dev] best-route behavior

[Hila Ben Abraham]

Thank you Junxiao. My results make sense now.

Hila

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:47 AM Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Hila
>
> The consumer app needs to retransmit a similar Interest (same
> Name+Selectors, different Nonce). The retransmission will be forwarded to
> another nexthop (toward D).
>
> best-route v3 has no memory beyond single PIT entry.
> This means, even if a retx finds a different producer, a different
> Interest still needs consumer retx.
> The assumption is: routing protocol is expected to erase the incorrect
> route (toward C) shortly.
>
> Yours, Junxiao
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Hila Ben Abraham <hila at wustl.edu> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> What is the expected behavior of the best-route strategy when the primary
>> face it uses doesn't respond with data? Shouldn't it try another face?
>> According to our experiments it keeps on forwarding the same interests to
>> the primary face, although another 'working' and more expensive face is
>> available.
>>
>> In some more details:
>> We are running an experiment using the following topology:
>> A--B--C
>>       |
>>      D
>>
>> On B, we set the cost of /ndn/test/ping toward C to be cheaper than the
>> one toward D.
>>
>> We start ndnpingserver on node D to respond to /ndn/test/ping, and we
>> start ndnping to ping for the same namespace on node A.
>>
>> As expected, B forwards the first interest on the cheapest face toward C.
>> However, even though C fails to respond with data, B keeps forwarding the
>> following ping interests to C, and never tries the face toward D.
>>
>> Is this the expected behavior? Am I missing something here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hila
>>
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