Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: introduce "noflood" broadcast flood prevention option

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 06:01:21PM +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:

So while that was the main use-case for me before the discussions we had last year on how to improve DAT, it's now more a minor one for me. Though it would still be nice to have / work towards a zero-broadcast mesh as RFC7772 for instance explains that frequent broadcasts have a quite significant impact on battery power for small, mobile devices. And the noflood option would be a quick and easy option for us for now to achieve this for ARP and other packet types.

More precisely, RFC7772 section 4 has some estimates regarding power cost for having frequent broadcast packets.