Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batctl.8 suggested correction.

Hello,

On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 03:20:54 -0500, cmsv wrote:

Having in mind that throughput and bandwidth are not the same and do not necessarily match; the use of the word "throughput" in batman-adv (Layer2) is misleading and can cause confusion when in measuring the real throughput on layer3 with L3 software.

As far as i know; at the moment batman-adv (L2) has no way to know what is the real throughput that the announced gateway bandwidth (l3) actually allows therefore the " throughput" should be changed to announced bandwidth.

Yeah, batman-adv does not know anything about the real throughput.

Example:

          If the node is a gateway client the parameter will decide which
          criterias to consider when the batman-adv module has to choose
          between different internet connections announced by the afore-
          mentioned servers.
                    default: 20 -> late switch (TQ 20)
                   examples:  1 -> fast connection
                                   consider the gateway's advertised
                                   bandwidth as well as the link quality
                                   towards the gateway and stick with the
                                   selection until the gateway disappears
                              2 -> stable connection
                                   chooses the gateway with the best link
                                   quality and sticks with it (ignore the
                                   advertised bandwidth)
                              3 -> fast switch connection
                                   chooses the gateway with the best link
                                   quality but switches to another gateway
                                   as soon as a better one is found
                             XX -> late switch connection
                                   chooses the gateway with the best link
                                   quality but switches to another gateway
                                   as soon as a better one is found which
                                   is at least XX TQ better than the cur-
                                   rently selected gateway (XX has to be a
                                   number between 3 and 256).

I think this change is correct. Why not sending a patch that we can directly apply in the batctl repository?

Thanks. Cheers,