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2012-04-30tipc: compress out gratuitous extra carriage returnsPaul Gortmaker1-14/+0
Some of the comment blocks are floating in limbo between two functions, or between blocks of code. Delete the extra line feeds between any comment and its associated following block of code, to be consistent with the majority of the rest of the kernel. Also delete trailing newlines at EOF and fix a couple trivial typos in existing comments. This is a 100% cosmetic change with no runtime impact. We get rid of over 500 lines of non-code, and being blank line deletes, they won't even show up as noise in git blame. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-02-24tipc: Eliminate trivial buffer manipulation helper routinesAllan Stephens1-3/+3
Gets rid of two inlined routines that simply call existing sk_buff manipulation routines, since there is no longer any extra processing done by the helper routines. Note that these changes are essentially cosmetic in nature, and have no impact on the actual operation of TIPC. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-02-24tipc: Detect duplicate nodes using different network interfacesAllan Stephens1-14/+58
Utilizes the new "node signature" field in neighbor discovery messages to ensure that all links TIPC associates with a given <Z.C.N> network address belong to the same neighboring node. (Previously, TIPC could not tell if link setup requests arriving on different interfaces were from the same node or from two different nodes that has mistakenly been assigned the same network address.) The revised algorithm for detecting a duplicate node considers both the node signature and the network interface adddress specified in a request message when deciding how to respond to a link setup request. This prevents false alarms that might otherwise arise during normal network operation under the following scenarios: a) A neighboring node reboots. (The node's signature changes, but the network interface address remains unchanged.) b) A neighboring node's network interface is replaced. (The node's signature remains unchanged, but the network interface address changes.) c) A neighboring node is completely replaced. (The node's signature and network interface address both change.) The algorithm also handles cases in which a node reboots and re-establishes its links to TIPC (or begins re-establishing those links) before TIPC detects that it is using a new node signature. In such cases of "delayed rediscovery" TIPC simply accepts the new signature without disrupting communication that is already underway over the links. Thanks to Laser [gotolaser@gmail.com] for his contributions to the development of this enhancement. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-02-24tipc: Introduce node signature field in neighbor discovery messageAllan Stephens1-0/+3
Adds support for the new "node signature" in neighbor discovery messages, which is a 16 bit identifier chosen randomly when TIPC is initialized. This field makes it possible for nodes receiving a neighbor discovery message to detect if multiple neighboring nodes are using the same network address (i.e. <Z.C.N>), even when the messages are arriving on different interfaces. This first phase of node signature support creates the signature, incorporates it into outgoing neighbor discovery messages, and tracks the signature used by valid neighbors. An upcoming patch builds on this foundation to implement the improved duplicate neighbor detection checking. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-12-29tipc: rename struct link* to struct tipc_link*Paul Gortmaker1-10/+10
This converts the following: struct link -> struct tipc_link struct link_req -> struct tipc_link_req struct link_name -> struct tipc_link_name Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-12-27tipc: Ignore neighbor discovery messages containing invalid addressAllan Stephens1-0/+3
Adds a check to ensure that TIPC ignores an incoming neighbor discovery message that specifies an invalid media address as its source. The check ensures that the source address is a valid, non-broadcast address that could legally be used by a neighboring link endpoint. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-12-27tipc: Hide media-specific addressing details from generic bearer codeAllan Stephens1-2/+2
Reworks TIPC's media address data structure and associated processing routines to transfer all media-specific details of address conversion to the associated TIPC media adaptation code. TIPC's generic bearer code now only needs to know which media type an address is associated with and whether or not it is a broadcast address, and totally ignores the "value" field that contains the actual media-specific addressing info. These changes eliminate the need for a number of endianness conversion operations and will make it easier for TIPC to support new media types in the future. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-09-17tipc: Ensure both nodes recognize loss of contact between themAllan Stephens1-6/+0
Enhances TIPC to ensure that a node that loses contact with a neighboring node does not allow contact to be re-established until it sees that its peer has also recognized the loss of contact. Previously, nodes that were connected by two or more links could encounter a situation in which node A would lose contact with node B on all of its links, purge its name table of names published by B, and then fail to repopulate those names once contact with B was restored. This would happen because B was able to re-establish one or more links so quickly that it never reached a point where it had no links to A -- meaning that B never saw a loss of contact with A, and consequently didn't re-publish its names to A. This problem is now prevented by enhancing the cleanup done by TIPC following a loss of contact with a neighboring node to ensure that node A ignores all messages sent by B until it receives a LINK_PROTOCOL message that indicates B has lost contact with A, thereby preventing the (re)establishment of links between the nodes. The loss of contact is recognized when a RESET or ACTIVATE message is received that has a "redundant link exists" field of 0, indicating that B's sending link endpoint is in a reset state and that B has no other working links. Additionally, TIPC now suppresses the sending of (most) link protocol messages to a neighboring node while it is cleaning up after an earlier loss of contact with that node. This stops the peer node from prematurely activating its link endpoint, which would prevent TIPC from later activating its own end. TIPC still allows outgoing RESET messages to occur during cleanup, to avoid problems if its own node recognizes the loss of contact first and tries to notify the peer of the situation. Finally, TIPC now recognizes an impending loss of contact with a peer node as soon as it receives a RESET message on a working link that is the peer's only link to the node, and ensures that the link protocol suppression mentioned above goes into effect right away -- that is, even before its own link endpoints have failed. This is necessary to ensure correct operation when there are redundant links between the nodes, since otherwise TIPC would send an ACTIVATE message upon receiving a RESET on its first link and only begin suppressing when a RESET on its second link was received, instead of initiating suppression with the first RESET message as it needs to. Note: The reworked cleanup code also eliminates a check that prevented a link endpoint's discovery object from responding to incoming messages while stale name table entries are being purged. This check is now unnecessary and would have slowed down re-establishment of communication between the nodes in some situations. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-05-10tipc: Revise timings used when sending link request messagesAllan Stephens1-30/+36
Revises the algorithm governing the sending of link request messages to take into account the number of nodes each bearer is currently in contact with, and to ensure more rapid rediscovery of neighboring nodes if a bearer fails and then recovers. The discovery object now sends requests at least once a second if it is not in contact with any other nodes, and at least once a minute if it has at least one neighbor; if contact with the only neighbor is lost, the object immediately reverts to its initial rapid-fire search timing to accelerate the rediscovery process. In addition, the discovery object now stops issuing link request messages if it is in contact with the only neighboring node it is configured to communicate with, since further searching is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-05-10tipc: Add monitoring of number of nodes discovered by bearerAllan Stephens1-5/+27
Augments TIPC's discovery object to track the number of neighboring nodes having an active link to the associated bearer. This means tipc_disc_update_link_req() becomes either one of: tipc_disc_add_dest() or: tipc_disc_remove_dest() depending on the code flow direction of things. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-05-10tipc: Enhance sending of discovery object link request messagesAllan Stephens1-1/+13
Augments TIPC's discovery object to send its initial neighbor discovery request message as soon as the associated bearer is created, rather than waiting for its first periodic timeout to occur, thereby speeding up the discovery process. Also adds a check to suppress the initial request or subsequent requests if the bearer is blocked at the time the request is scheduled for transmission. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-05-10tipc: Enhance handling of discovery object creation failuresAllan Stephens1-24/+21
Modifies bearer creation and deletion code to improve handling of scenarios when a neighbor discovery object cannot be created. The creation routine now aborts the creation of a bearer if its discovery object cannot be created, and deletes the newly created bearer, rather than failing quietly and leaving an unusable bearer hanging around. Since the exit via the goto label really isn't a definitive failure in all cases, relabel it appropriately. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-05-10tipc: Strengthen checks for neighboring node discoveryAllan Stephens1-2/+5
Enhances existing checks on the discovery domain associated with a TIPC bearer. A bearer can no longer be configured to accept links from itself only (which would be pointless), or to nodes outside its own cluster (since multi-cluster support has now been removed from TIPC). Also, the neighbor discovery routine now validates link setup requests against the configured discovery domain for the bearer, rather than simply ensuring the requesting node belongs to the node's own cluster. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-03-13tipc: Don't respond to neighbor discovery request on blocked bearerAllan Stephens1-1/+1
Adds a check to prevent TIPC from trying to respond to an incoming LINK_CONFIG request message if the associated bearer is currently prohibited from sending messages. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-03-13tipc: Eliminate unnecessary constant for neighbor discovery msg sizeAllan Stephens1-2/+2
Eliminates an unnecessary constant that defines the size of a LINK_CONFIG message, and uses one of the existing standard message size symbols in its place. (The defunct constant was located in the wrong place anyway, since it was grouped with other constants that define message users instead of message sizes.) Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-03-13tipc: Optimizations to link creation codeAllan Stephens1-1/+1
Enhances link creation code as follows: 1) Detects illegal attempts to add a requested link earlier in the link creation process. This prevents TIPC from wasting time initializing a link object it then throws away, and also eliminates the code needed to do the throwing away. 2) Passes in the node object associated with the requested link. This allows TIPC to eliminate a search to locate the node object, as well as code that attempted to create the node if it doesn't exist. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-03-13tipc: Give Tx of discovery responses priority over link messagesAllan Stephens1-7/+9
Delay releasing the node lock when processing a neighbor discovery message until after the optional discovery response message has been sent. This helps ensure that any link protocol messages sent by a link endpoint created as a result of a neighbor discovery request are received after the discovery response is received, thereby giving the receiving node a chance to create a peer link endpoint to consume those link protocol messages, if one does not already exist. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-03-13tipc: Cosmetic changes to neighbor discovery logicAllan Stephens1-44/+59
Reworks the appearance of the routine that processes incoming LINK_CONFIG messages to keep the main logic flow at a consistent level of indentation, and to add comments outlining the various phases involved in processing each message. This rework is being done to allow upcoming enhancements to this routine to be integrated more cleanly. The diff isn't really readable, so know that it was a case of the old code being like: tipc_disc_recv_msg(..) { if (in_own_cluster(orig)) { ... lines and lines of stuff ... } } which is now replaced with the more sane: tipc_disc_recv_msg(..) { if (!in_own_cluster(orig)) return; ... lines and lines of stuff ... } Instances of spin locking within the reindented block were replaced with the identical tipc_node_[un]lock() abstractions. Note that all these changes are cosmetic in nature, and do not change the way LINK_CONFIG messages are processed. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-02-23tipc: Remove unused message header field for requested number of linksAllan Stephens1-8/+3
Eliminates support for the "number of requested links" field in a neighbor discovery message. This field was never used and has been removed from the TIPC 2.0 protocol specification. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-02-23tipc: Combine bearer structure with tipc_bearer structureAllan Stephens1-13/+13
Combines two distinct structures containing information about a TIPC bearer into a single structure. The structures were previously kept separate so that public information about a bearer could be made available to plug-in media types using TIPC's native API, while the remaining information was kept private for use by TIPC itself. However, now that the native API has been removed there is no longer any need for this arrangement. Since one of the structures was already embedded within the other, the change largely involves replacing instances of "publ.foo" with "foo". The changes do not otherwise alter the operation of TIPC bearers. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-01-01tipc: cleanup various cosmetic whitespace issuesAllan Stephens1-1/+1
Cleans up TIPC's source code to eliminate deviations from generally accepted coding conventions relating to leading/trailing white space and white space around commas, braces, cases, and sizeof. These changes are purely cosmetic and do not alter the operation of TIPC in any way. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-01tipc: remove redundant #includesAllan Stephens1-2/+0
Eliminates a number of #include statements that no longer serve any useful purpose. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-01tipc: remove calls to dbg() and msg_dbg()Allan Stephens1-4/+0
Eliminates obsolete calls to two of TIPC's main debugging macros, as well as a pair of associated debugging routines that are no longer required. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-01tipc: Remove prototype code for supporting slave nodesAllan Stephens1-4/+0
Simplifies routines and data structures that were intended to allow TIPC to support slave nodes (i.e. nodes that did not have links to all of the other nodes in its cluster, forcing TIPC to route messages that it could not deliver directly through a non-slave node). Currently, TIPC supports only networks containing non-slave nodes, so this code is unnecessary. Note: The latest edition of the TIPC 2.0 Specification has eliminated the concept of slave nodes entirely. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-02tipc: Remove obsolete inclusions of header filesAllan Stephens1-2/+0
Gets rid of #include statements that are no longer required as a result of the merging of obsolete native API header file content into other TIPC include files. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-16tipc: cleanup function namespacestephen hemminger1-15/+1
Do some cleanups of TIPC based on make namespacecheck 1. Don't export unused symbols 2. Eliminate dead code 3. Make functions and variables local 4. Rename buf_acquire to tipc_buf_acquire since it is used in several files Compile tested only. This make break out of tree kernel modules that depend on TIPC routines. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-13tipc: clean out all instances of #if 0'd unused codePaul Gortmaker1-20/+0
Remove all instances of legacy, or as yet to be implemented code that is currently living within an #if 0 ... #endif block. In the rare instance that some of it be needed in the future, it can still be dragged out of history, but there is no need for it to sit in mainline. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-17tipc: Prevent missing name table entries when link flip-flops rapidlyAllan Stephens1-0/+8
Ensure that TIPC does not re-establish communication with a neighboring node until it has finished updating all data structures containing information about that node to reflect the earlier loss of contact. Previously, it was possible for TIPC to perform its purge of name table entries relating to the node once contact had already been re-established, resulting in the unwanted removal of valid name table entries. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-12tipc: add tipc_ prefix to fcns targeted for un-inliningAllan Stephens1-3/+3
These functions have enough code in them such that they seem like sensible targets for un-inlining. Prior to doing that, this adds the tipc_ prefix to the functions, so that in the event of a panic dump or similar, the subsystem from which the functions come from is immediately clear. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-12tipc: Relocate trivial link status functions to header fileAllan Stephens1-1/+1
Rather than live in link.c where they can only be used in that file alone, these helper routines are better served by being in link.h Relocated are the following: link_working_working link_working_unknown link_reset_unknown link_reset_reset link_blocked link_congested Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-02tipc: Don't use structure names which easily globally conflict.David S. Miller1-1/+1
Andrew Morton reported a build failure on sparc32, because TIPC uses names like "struct node" and there is a like named data structure defined in linux/node.h This just regexp replaces "struct node*" to "struct tipc_node*" to avoid this and any future similar problems. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-04tipc: Message rejection rework preparatory changesAllan Stephens1-1/+1
This patch defines a few new message header manipulation routines, and generalizes the usefulness of another, in preparation for upcoming rework of TIPC's message rejection code. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-04tipc: Optimize message initialization routineAllan Stephens1-2/+1
This patch eliminates the rarely-used "error code" argument when initializing a TIPC message header, since the default value of zero is the desired result in most cases; the few exceptional cases now set the error code explicitly. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-04tipc: Minor optimizations to received message processingAllan Stephens1-2/+2
This patch enhances TIPC's handler for incoming messages in two ways: - the trivial, single-use routine for processing non-sequenced messages has been merged into the main handler - the interface that received a message is now identified without having to access and/or modify the associated sk_buff Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-21tipc: Optimize null pointer check during neighbor discoveryAllan Stephens1-3/+2
This patch optimizes TIPC neighbor discovery code to avoid testing for a null node pointer when the pointer is already known to be non-null. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10[NET] TIPC: Fix whitespace errors.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki1-25/+25
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-18[TIPC]: Fixed slow link reactivation when link tolerance is largeAllan Stephens1-3/+4
This patch corrects an issue wherein a previouly failed node could not reestablish a links to a non-failing node in the TIPC network until the latter node detected the link failure itself (which might be configured to take up to 30 seconds). The non-failing node now responds to link setup requests from a previously failed node in at most 1 second, allowing it to detect the link failure more quickly. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-18[TIPC]: Added duplicate node address detection capabilityAllan Stephens1-1/+31
TIPC now rejects and logs link setup requests from node <Z.C.N> if the receiving node already has a functional link to that node on the associated interface, or if the requestor is using the same <Z.C.N> as the receiver. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-21[TIPC]: Removing useless castsPanagiotis Issaris1-1/+1
Removing useless casts Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-25[TIPC]: Fix incorrect correction to discovery timer frequency computation.Allan Stephens1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-25[TIPC]: Enhanced & cleaned up system messages; fixed 2 obscure memory leaks.Allan Stephens1-5/+2
Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[TIPC]: CleanupsAdrian Bunk1-4/+4
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - #if 0 the following unused global functions: - name_table.c: tipc_nametbl_print() - name_table.c: tipc_nametbl_dump() - net.c: tipc_net_next_node() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-18[TIPC] Avoid polluting the global namespacePer Liden1-26/+26
This patch adds a tipc_ prefix to all externally visible symbols. Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
2006-01-12[TIPC] Update of file headersPer Liden1-2/+1
The copyright statements from different parts of Ericsson have been merged into one. Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
2006-01-12[TIPC] License header updatePer Liden1-19/+23
The license header in each file now more clearly state that this code is licensed under a dual BSD/GPL. Before this was only evident if you looked at the MODULE_LICENSE line in core.c. Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
2006-01-12[TIPC} Fixed bug in disc_timeout()Jon Maloy1-26/+2
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
2006-01-12[TIPC] Initial mergePer Liden1-0/+339
TIPC (Transparent Inter Process Communication) is a protocol designed for intra cluster communication. For more information see http://tipc.sourceforge.net Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>