Hi Dan,
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 07:43:03PM -0600, dan wrote: [...]
I see that if there is just one listener, then it basically becomes a unicast stream. But what if I have multiple sites (lets say 10) and at 2 sites there are 1 listener each.
does this mean that all 10 sites will get the broadcast? or that just the 2 sites that have listeners will get the broadcast?
Currently, if 2 (or more) batman-adv nodes have 1 listener each (for the same multicast group) then the packet will be flooded. Meaning all nodes in the mesh will receive it.
I currently have two more patches for batman-adv open for further testing to allow not just multicast-to-unicast conversion to a single destination, but a multicast-to-multi-unicast conversion, too. They are currently burried in here:
https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/pull/1357
If you are interested and brave enough to try them then let me know how that goes for you :-).
Regards, Linus