[Babel-users] Losing seqnos at boot

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

>> Finally, if the above workarounds are not satisfactory for you, we could
>> consider extending the procol with a flag that says ``I've rebooted
>> recently, please flush any loop-avoidance data you may have for me.''
>> The Reserved field of the Router-Id message is just the right place to
>> put such a flag (Section 4.4.7 in the Babel draft).

> If this is desirable functionality and useful to others that don't
> have my particular mitigating factors, I'd be happy to implement it.

If you're happy with the workarounds, I'd rather not complicate the
protocol.

                                        Juliusz