Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] how well does batman-adv scale

[fuumind <fuumind@openmailbox.org>]

Now I get it. :) That makes sense.

Thanks!

fre 2017-04-28 klockan 14:23 +0200 skrev Simon Wunderlich:
> Hi,
> 
> On Friday, April 28, 2017 12:44:08 PM CEST fuumind wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, so clouds of a few hundred nodes would work reasonably well and
> > at
> > the same time keep customization to a minimum.
> Yes
> 
> > 
> > 
> > What makes OSPF a better candidate for interfacing between the
> > clouds?
> > Does it keep a more limited routing table and thus minimize
> > overhead
> > traffic? I haven't been able to figure it out good enough yet.
> The idea would be that you do a layer 3 protocol only on a few
> selected 
> "gateway" nodes of the clouds. Those gateways would forward traffic
> from one 
> cloud to the other, without having the details (and thus not having
> the 
> overhead) of the state of the mesh.
> 
> Which technology is the best is beyond my knowledge.
> 
> Cheers,
>       Simon
>