X-Git-Url: http://git.silcnet.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fdraft-riikonen-silc-pp-04.nroff;h=d54920dcfac699056b888552b1918f8e4eea9bd1;hb=497c9f7c515609bf22606494ca4a48f0677acf6f;hp=858dd119f5dade282915158e521953f4f5dd5f6a;hpb=33cf831bcbb37d145051ee687fc5a0ce4df1ec80;p=silc.git diff --git a/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-pp-04.nroff b/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-pp-04.nroff index 858dd119..d54920dc 100644 --- a/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-pp-04.nroff +++ b/doc/draft-riikonen-silc-pp-04.nroff @@ -2653,17 +2653,18 @@ directly connected to the server. Routers form a ring in the SILC network. However, routers may have other direct connections to other routers in the network too. This can cause -interesting routing problems in the network. Since the network is ring, +interesting routing problems in the network. Since the network is a ring, the packets usually should be routed into counter clock-wise direction, or if it cannot be used then always clock-wise (primary route) direction. Problems may arise when a faster direct route exists and router is routing -a channel messages. Currently channel messages must be routed either +a channel message. Currently channel messages must be routed either in upstream or downstream, they cannot be routed to other direct routes. The SILC protocol should have a shortest path discovery protocol, and some -existing routing protocol, that can handle a ring network with other direct -routes inside the ring (hybrid ring-mesh network), MAY be defined to be -used with the SILC protocol. Additional specifications MAY be written -on the subject. +existing routing protocol, that can handle a ring network with other +direct routes inside the ring (so called hybrid ring-mesh topology), +MAY be defined to be used with the SILC protocol. Additional +specifications MAY be written on the subject to permeate this +specification. .ti 0