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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:58:49 +0800
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Multiradio Batman
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On Thursday 28 May 2009 13:17:04 Kartik Muralidharan wrote:
> But how would batman choose the next hop if at every node there are two
> interfaces available. The ideal ofcourse would be
> 11a->11b->11a->11b->11a on each hop.

If all nodes have 2 interfaces its hard to predict whether it will be:
11a->11b->11a->11b->11a
or
11b->11a->11b->11a->11b

If the link qualities are all equal batman we choose the fastest path (lowest 
latency).

Regards,
Marek