Two basic questions about network

[Victor.Lin_1]

1. What is "Byzantine generals problem" ?
"a famous problem in computer science"(page11 )
2. Could you explain "dialogue control" in session layer of OSI modle by spme examples ?

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

BGP:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cs614-sp98/notes/byzantine.html

TCP/IP:

http://citap.freeservers.com/publications/tcp-ip/tcpip006.htm

[Victor.Lin_1]

I can not access both of the two links.

[linuxfan]

Hi Victor,

The earlier link seems fine to me, but you could try this as well.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/gupta/byzantine.htm

-Regards
Ramesh

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

There is some quick and good explanation of this problme at this site

http://cis.poly.edu/muller/CS623/byzantine_generals_problem.htm

Following site explains the dialogue control along with other functionalities.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/subjects/dgs6810/layers/sess1.html

-Sri