Re: CARD: handling of sequence numbers

Henrik Petander <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:15:15 +0300 (EEST)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.seamoby
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Eunsoo Shim wrote:

>
> >
> > > In case we keep 1 second also for the MN_AR_TIMEOUT, there should not be
> > > a conflict,
> > > right? Otherwise, we could also let the MN "flag" a CARD REQUEST in case
> > > it is a retransmission.
> > > But I guess this introcuced more complexity compared to the benefit.
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > Isn't the MN-AR request resend interval the same as the minimum interval
> > for new requests? So a flag may be the easiest way to allow AR to
> > distinguish new requests from resends.
> >
> If both time intervals are the same, does the AR need to distinguish a
> resent Request from a new Request for rate limiting?

If it is OK that the AR sets the AR-AR resend timer for both, then there
is no need to distinguish them. This is OK with me.

Henrik