From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/2] batman-adv: make number of broadcasts configurable per hardif
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 03:28:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201303090328.38621.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362764336-1591-2-git-send-email-linus.luessing@web.de>
On Saturday, March 09, 2013 01:38:56 Linus Lüssing wrote:
> From: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
>
> In heterogenous networks, setting the number of broadcasts to differing
> values on different interfaces can be beneficial.
>
> E.g., on wireless interfaces with high packet loss a higher number of
> broadcasts may be necessary, whereas on low-bandwidth interfaces with
> relatively high reliablily (such as VPN links over slow internet lines)
> sending only a single packet makes more sense to preserve bandwidth.
In general, I like the idea but the approach isn't the best. Can't we automate
these settings instead of adding hundreds of little knobs nobody will
understand ? Why not detecting wifi interfaces as such and configure the
broadcast value accordingly ? The same goes for ethernet / vpns ?
Cheers,
Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-08 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-08 17:38 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/2] batman-adv: Make number of (re)broadcasts configurable via sysfs Linus Lüssing
2013-03-08 17:38 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/2] batman-adv: make number of broadcasts configurable per hardif Linus Lüssing
2013-03-08 19:28 ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2013-03-08 19:42 ` Matthias Schiffer
2013-03-08 20:06 ` Marek Lindner
2013-03-08 21:50 ` Matthias Schiffer
2013-03-09 10:07 ` Marek Lindner
2013-03-09 21:03 ` "Linus Lüssing"
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