"Garber, Mike" wrote:
> By every node monitoring what's going on, they keep a map of active node #s
> Every once-in-a-while, when a station has the token, if there's a gap between his node# and his sucessor
> he does a "solicit-for-sucessor" to one of the non-active ones.  That way new node #s get picked up.

Hadn't thought of that, but I like it. Reminds me of ARP in a way.

Instead of each node maintaining a map of the entire network, what if it just
maintained the number for its successor? Then handle gaps as you mentioned
above. The last node will have to remember the first node as its successor.
Also, it would be nice for a node to send its new successor the number of its
old successor.

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