This statement is taken as it is from RFC-3561 of AODV:
A destination node increments its own sequence number in two circumstances:
- Immediately before a node originates a route discovery, it MUST increment its own sequence number. This prevents conflicts with previously established reverse routes towards the originator.
- Immediately before a destination node originates a RREP in response to RREQ, it MUST update its own sequence number to the maximum of its current sequence number and the destination.
1. What does maximum of its sequence number mean here?
2. The RREQ contains the following fields: . assuming that the source have no idea about the destination but it only knows that it is some where in the network,
-How could it assign this DestSeq#?,
-What is its innitial SourceSeq#? and how that value is assigned?