Thomas Kunz
Systems and Computer Engineering
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Timeouts
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nA routing table entry maintaining a reverse path is purged after a timeout interval
–timeout should be long enough to allow RREP to come back
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nA routing table entry maintaining a forward path is purged if not used for a active_route_timeout interval
–if no is data being sent using a particular routing table entry,  that entry will be deleted from the routing table (even if the route may actually still be valid)