The current OSPF neighbor retransmission operates on a single per-neighbor
periodic timer that sends all LSAs on the list when it expires.
Additionally, since it skips the first retransmission of received LSAs so
that at least the retransmission interval (resulting in a delay of between
the retransmission interval and twice the interval. In environments where
the links are lossy on P2MP networks with "delay-reflood" configured (which
relies on neighbor retransmission in partial meshs), the implementation
is sub-optimal (to say the least).
This commit reimplements OSPF neighbor retransmission as follows:
1. A new data structure making use the application managed
typesafe.h doubly linked list implements an OSPF LSA
list where each node includes a timestamp.
2. The existing neighbor LS retransmission LSDB data structure
is augmented with a pointer to the list node on the LSA
list to faciliate O(1) removal when the LSA is acknowledged.
3. The neighbor LS retransmission timer is set to the expiration
timer of the LSA at the top of the list.
4. When the timer expires, LSAs are retransmitted that within
the window of the current time and a small delta (50 milli-secs
default). The LSAs that are retransmited are given an updated
retransmission time and moved to the end of the LSA list.
5. Configuration is added to set the "retransmission-window" to a
value other than 50 milliseconds.
6. Neighbor and interface LSA retransmission counters are added
to provide insight into the lossiness of the links. However,
these will increment quickly on non-fully meshed P2MP networks
with "delay-reflood" configured.
7. Added a topotest to exercise the implementation on a non-fully
meshed P2MP network with "delay-reflood" configured. The
alternative was to use existing mechanisms to instroduce loss
but these seem less determistic in a topotest.
Signed-off-by: Acee Lindem <acee@lindem.com>
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