On Saturday, March 09, 2013 01:38:56 Linus Lüssing wrote:
From: Matthias Schiffer mschiffer@universe-factory.net
In heterogenous networks, setting the number of broadcasts to differing values on different interfaces can be beneficial.
E.g., on wireless interfaces with high packet loss a higher number of broadcasts may be necessary, whereas on low-bandwidth interfaces with relatively high reliablily (such as VPN links over slow internet lines) sending only a single packet makes more sense to preserve bandwidth.
In general, I like the idea but the approach isn't the best. Can't we automate these settings instead of adding hundreds of little knobs nobody will understand ? Why not detecting wifi interfaces as such and configure the broadcast value accordingly ? The same goes for ethernet / vpns ?
Cheers, Marek