X-Git-Url: https://www.tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?p=tinc;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2FCONNECTIVITY;h=f48373920c428d7e54f197a2cbb64f222e618a29;hp=67004d4990e4e71dabdc4197e1c5e2b27c790128;hb=HEAD;hpb=de78d79db84c486afcc353884ec1770866beb653 diff --git a/doc/CONNECTIVITY b/doc/CONNECTIVITY index 67004d49..f4837392 100644 --- a/doc/CONNECTIVITY +++ b/doc/CONNECTIVITY @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This document describes how nodes in a VPN find and connect to eachother and +This document describes how nodes in a VPN find and connect to each other and maintain a stable network. Copyright 2001-2006 Guus Sliepen @@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ maintain a stable network. provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. - $Id$ - 1. Synchronisation ================== @@ -28,7 +26,7 @@ share the same information. It will also almost completely prevent information from looping, because "new" information that is already known is ignored and not forwarded any further. However, since information can also be deleted there's the possibility of a looping sequence of add/delete messages. This is -resolved by additionaly adding a unique identifier to each broadcasted message. +resolved by additionally adding a unique identifier to each broadcasted message. Messages are dropped if the same message with that identifier has already been seen.