Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:27:32 PDT, Bora Akyol said:

It is not dependent on time. You'd like a protocol to be self sufficient if at all possible.

Moving the vulnerability of one protocol to another is not highly desirable in general.

The interesting failure mode is, of course, what happens when you're not in time sync, so the routing protocol falls over - and due to the lack of routing table entries, you become unable to reach your timesource.