On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:43:30AM +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>> Does the heartbeat event need a counter (like ICMP packets
do) to
>> detect backward jumps and/or lost heartbeats?
>
> Right now the heartbeat sends out the timestamp. But if the clock gets changed, it
> could seem to be a backwards jump. Changing it to be a counter instead would
> be a simple change to this patch for pushing.
I think you'd probably want both. The timestamp and a sequence number.
That's cool. Okay, so if this is an ACK with that change (I'll wait for
a response) I'll go ahead and push it.
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