On Thursday, 16 April 2020 14:26:14 CEST Moritz Warning wrote:

Hi,

I run a simulation of 50 batman-adv instances connected on a chain topology:

[node-0] <-> [node1] <-> ... <-> [node49]

Despite there being no packet loss, the nodes at both ends (nodes 0 and 49) only see 32 other nodes.

The second outermost nodes see 33 other nodes and so on until the nodes that are at least 18 hops from both ends (nodes 17 and 32), which see all other 49 nodes.

The OGM TTL is set to 50 [1], but from this experiment, the TTL seems to be 32.

Can someone shed light on this observation? The batman-adv version used is 2019.4.

[2020-04-04 15:13:28] <mwarning> does batman-adv has a maximum hop count? (given that there is no packet loss) [2020-04-04 15:13:54] <mwarning> I get some funny results while testing with a lot of nodes in a line. [2020-04-04 16:21:16] <hexa-> hop_penalty gets subtracted from the tq on each hop, so yes [2020-04-04 17:23:46] <T_X> also, the OGM TTL is 50 (in case mwarning comes back and someone wants to tell him) [2020-04-04 17:23:49] <T_X> https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/blob/refs/heads/master:/net/batman-... [2020-04-04 22:17:02] <marec> mwarning: <T_X> also, the OGM TTL is 50 (in case mwarning comes back and someone wants to tell him) [2020-04-04 22:17:09] <marec> mwarning: <T_X> https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/blob/refs/heads/master:/net/batman-... [2020-04-04 22:20:11] <mwarning> ah [2020-04-04 22:20:17] <mwarning> marec: thanks [2020-04-04 22:21:50] <mwarning> https://mwarning.de/misc/convergence-line.png [2020-04-04 22:22:24] <mwarning> ^ I was worried because batman-adv didn't reach 100% in this artificial test of 100 nodes in line [2020-04-04 22:24:53] <mwarning> T_X: thanks [2020-04-04 22:25:36] <mwarning> is there a technical reason for it to be set to 50? Or is it just high enough for technical reasons? [2020-04-04 22:25:52] <mwarning> * high enough for practical reasons [2020-04-04 22:35:21] <ordex> mwarning: I think nobody ever came up with a real use case where 50 was not enough [2020-04-04 22:35:50] <ordex> due to hop penalty and natural metric reduction, a path will most likely never reach 50 hops [2020-04-04 22:36:33] <mwarning> true (over wifi) [2020-04-04 22:36:49] <mwarning> a lattice of 100 nodes is much better: https://mwarning.de/misc/convergence-lattice4.png [2020-04-05 01:08:04] <marec> mwarning: feel free to propose a patch increasing the TTL on the ml [2020-04-05 01:08:22] <marec> if you feel a bigger TTL is worthwhile [2020-04-05 01:16:48] <mwarning> I doubt it is worthwhile. That one test was artifical. [2020-04-05 01:17:45] <mwarning> I will test batman-adv with 1000 nodes tomorrow. But on a lattice. [2020-04-05 01:18:24] <mwarning> (and if the server can handle the load) [2020-04-05 11:08:01] <ordex> mwarning: but it seems batman-adv eventually manages to deliver to every node, right ? [2020-04-05 11:08:07] <ordex> so there is no reachability problem apparently ?

Also regarding the hop penalty - let us the TQ after these amount of hops (really, really, really simplified):

...

...

255 * ((255 - 30) / 255.) ** 32

4.646168821433396

Now do the same with integer math:

def new_tq_penalty(tq): hop_penalty = 30 BATADV_TQ_MAX_VALUE = 255 new_tq = tq * (BATADV_TQ_MAX_VALUE - hop_penalty); new_tq /= BATADV_TQ_MAX_VALUE; return int(new_tq) tq = 255 for i in range(32): tq = new_tq_penalty(tq)

print(tq)

And even in a perfect scenario, you would only have a tq of 0. And here we even ignored that wifi interfaces which are used as incoming and outgoing interfaces have an extra round of penalty for each link.

Originator nodes with a TQ of zero are filtered out [1] during the print and are also not forwarded [2].

Kind regards, Sven

[1] https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/blob/e13bcb6db03b74e1eb77e7410761db... [2] https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/blob/e13bcb6db03b74e1eb77e7410761db...