From: Ignacio Quezada <dreamtrick@gmail.com>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] is the multicast performance throttled?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:03:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1471284198.10713.0.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160814172843.GE8599@otheros>
Hi,
> > Second guess (which is probably it :-) ): In general, batman-adv
> > (re)broadcasts a multicast packet three times on an interface. To
> > ensure proper reception even over multiple hops.
>
> PS: As you are compiling batman-adv yourself, you might want to
> try different values for BATADV_NUM_BCASTS_WIRELESS in main.h to
> (in)validate this hypothesis.
This was indeed "the problem". Setting that value to 1 allowed much
more throughput. Is the value 3 just an arbitrary number to "ensure"
reliability? Because that would mean that if dropping some multicast
packets now and then is not really an issue, I could just set this to 1
in my case.
--
MVH
Ignacio Quezada
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-11 15:13 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] is the multicast performance throttled? Ignacio Quezada
2016-08-11 15:47 ` Linus Lüssing
2016-08-11 16:09 ` Ignacio Quezada
2016-08-11 16:31 ` Linus Lüssing
2016-08-12 7:50 ` Ignacio Quezada
2016-08-14 17:21 ` Linus Lüssing
2016-08-14 17:28 ` Linus Lüssing
2016-08-15 18:03 ` Ignacio Quezada [this message]
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