[Tinyos-help] Seeding the network

[Omprakash Gnawali]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:45 AM, bharat naik<bharat.2511 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>      Could someone tell me what is the purpose of the piece of code at the
> start of selectRoute() in MultiHopLEPSM.nc i.e when it tries to seed the
> network. I tried writing an alternate selectRoute() without this part and
> the code still worked i.e as far as simulating goes. So, what exactly does
> seeding accomplish?

If a node does not have a parent, sending the message to the broadcast
address allows other nodes to update the routing information.

- om_p