On Sunday 20 October 2013 10:25:07 Linus Lüssing wrote:
I think I had posted some thoughts on the TVLV feature on the IRC channel before with some suggestions for changes (e.g. moving the TVLV feature from the individual packet types down to the common batman header). And had tried to come up with examples for features where TVLVs for batman broadcast packets could be useful
- which might have been potential, but not the most convincing,
not the most awesome features.
So now I have a feature which I would like to have / would like to work on in the future [0], and I would like to know:
Before we discuss how we get TVLVs 'down to the common batman header' we should talk about why that would be useful. What are the advantages and disadvantages ? Adding tvlvs everywhere for the mere sake of having them around isn't good enough as they increase code complexity, network traffic overhead and encapsulation speed penalties.
Cheers, Marek