On Saturday 21 March 2009 16:53:36 Bastian Bittorf wrote:
in OLSR networks we change the multicast-rate, to allow only links with "reasonable" bandwith to be used. Maybe this is also a good idea for batman. In a dense network, set you multicast-rate to 12mbit on all nodes, in a "normal" network you can use e.g. 5.5 mbit. (this helps the routing daemon and does nearly not change the normal network behavior)
Basically I agree here. Setting the transfer rate helps stabilizing the network. Not so sure why you say "in OLSR networks" as this is more a wifi setting rather than a mesh protocol thing. Is that integrated into OLSR ?
important question: are batman-adv-packets transfered in multicast-rate?
batman-adv-packets are ethernet broadcast packets and follow the same broadcast mechanisms as IP broadcasts.
Regards, Marek