2015-11-16 4:13 GMT+02:00 Marek Lindner mareklindner@neomailbox.ch:
On Saturday, November 14, 2015 20:04:49 3zl Trizonelabs wrote:
With multi-gateway there it seems the general problems how to influence the batman-adv gateway announcement in respect of gateway capabilities.
Can you explain in greater detail what you are trying to achieve ?
Additionally we encountered the problem that a gateway lost uptream connection(internet) without switching itself from server to client, so nodes with path to that gateway routes their resp.clients to a "black hole". Question is how generally control the batman-adv routing in those cases.
If you control the gateways the gateway should detect the uplink failure and stop announcing themselves as gateway. That is how most people are doing it.
in cases of gateway-router instabilites (short brownouts / blackouts ) which we have alot with thunderstorms, it would be helpful if some other control instance could block the gateway to be used inside the batman-adv routing aside from the gateway anouncing itself.
If you don't control the gateways or wish to solve this on the clients the batman-adv module would need to get extended to influence the selected gateway from user space.
Is there any idea how to implement some kind of 'control instance' for the batman-adv routing ?
That also would help to achive some dynamic routing to gateways by adjusting the qualtiy of those in respect L3 parameters.
tnx 3zl
On Monday, November 16, 2015 23:00:59 3zl Trizonelabs wrote:
in cases of gateway-router instabilites (short brownouts / blackouts ) which we have alot with thunderstorms, it would be helpful if some other control instance could block the gateway to be used inside the batman-adv routing aside from the gateway anouncing itself.
Why does it matter how long the gateway is out ? What is the advantage of doing long blackouts via the gateway announcement and short blackouts on the client ? The clients have to switch their gateway either way.
Is there any idea how to implement some kind of 'control instance' for the batman-adv routing ?
That depends on your definition of 'control instance'. From a high level perspective how should it work ?
That also would help to achive some dynamic routing to gateways by adjusting the qualtiy of those in respect L3 parameters.
This sentence does not compile. Do you mind explaining what you have in mind ?
Cheers, Marek
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