RE: draft of a core protocol spec

At 02:29 PM 11/7/2002 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>>>         TTL In the absence of any recommended value in IEEE 802.17, 
>>>             the TTL SHOULD be set to 255. 
>>>lb] There is no need (nor a standard way) to indicate TTL to the MAC. The
>>>MAC can calculate it based on the DA
>>
>>There does not need to be a standard way of indicating the TTL to
>>the MAC. That's an implementation issue.  However, that's irrelevant.
>>If the MAC can insert the "correct" TTL, that's _probably_ all we
>>need and I'll revise the spec to say that. One question, when a node
>>is added to the ring, does the MAC update its notion of what TTL
>>to use "quickly"?
>
>There is *no* way to indicate TTL to the MAC. TTL is set internally by the MAC. And, yes, the MAC adjusts the TTL value as needed, including when topology changes. 


I just looked. I'd have sworn that there was a TTL field
in the MA_DATA.request. I just looked. I'm wrong. I'll remove
all the TTL goop.

Sorry

Frank