#6463 BLOC Never A: Invites don't work in simple mesh mode

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#6463: Invites don't work in simple mesh mode
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  Reporter:  wad              |       Owner:  Collabora         
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  new               
  Priority:  blocker          |   Milestone:  Never Assigned    
 Component:  telepathy-other  |     Version:                    
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:  mesh collaboration
  Verified:  0                |    Blocking:                    
 Blockedby:                   |  
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Comment(by bemasc):

 This bug is very much still alive in 703 and joyride.  I recently observed
 it while running on a mesh with only 3 XOs, in a very low-noise
 environment (only two APs visible, and no other XOs around).  I tried this
 again when I got back to my apartment (about 15 APs visible, but still
 only 3 XOs) and the bug did not appear.  I have very rarely been able to
 reproduce it in my apartment.

 The only place I have consistently reproduced the problem is at 1CC, where
 the mesh's packet loss is extremely high.  However, we should be clear:
 this bug can still occur in situations with very little packet loss, which
 indicates that the transport being used for invitations is not truly
 reliable.

 This bug is the same as #6061, so the problem has been present at least
 since January 2008. It's also highly correlated with stream tube
 connection failure (which causes Distance not to work); I always see these
 problems at the same time.  I imagine that there may be a packet-loss-
 tolerance bug in a piece of code that Salut uses both to send invitations
 and to initiate stream tubes.

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