Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: increase default hop penalty

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:16:03PM +0200, Simon Wunderlich wrote:

This patch changes the hop penalty to 30, which will give an effective penalty of 60 on single band devices (hop penalty + wifi penalty).

"batman-adv: encourage batman to take shorter routes by changing the default hop penalty" (6a12de1939281dd7fa62a6e22dc2d2c38f82734f)

This patch changed the hop penalty for single (and back then also dual) band devices from 10 to 30.

If 60 were always the correct value, why wasn't it changed from 10 to 60 back then?

If the reason was not having it measured thoroughly enough back then, why would your latest measurements be? (For instance what will prevent the hop penalty being changed again next year?)

Any data for others to check?

Cheers, Linus