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Make count to infinity example less confusing
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Reduce nominal hop count of network to 15 so it is clearly less than "infinity"
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drbruced12 committed Jun 20, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -381,11 +381,11 @@ tables for the network do not stabilize. This situation is known as the
There are several partial solutions to this problem. The first one is to
use some relatively small number as an approximation of infinity. For
example, we might decide that the maximum number of hops to get across a
certain network is never going to be more than 16, and so we could pick
certain network is never going to be more than 15, and so we could pick
16 as the value that represents infinity. This at least bounds the
amount of time that it takes to count to infinity. Of course, it could
also present a problem if our network grew to a point where some nodes
were separated by more than 16 hops.
were separated by more than 15 hops.

One technique to improve the time to stabilize routing is called *split
horizon*. The idea is that when a node sends a routing update to its
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