Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: increase default hop penalty

[Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>]

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On Tuesday 17 June 2014 12:16:03 Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> From: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
> 
> The default hop penalty is currently set to 15, which is applied like
> that for multi interface devices (e.g. dual band APs). Single band
> devices will still use an effective penalty of 30 (hop penalty + wifi
> penalty).
> 
> After receiving reports of too long paths in mesh networks with dual
> band APs which were fixed by increasing the hop penalty, we'd like to
> suggest to increase that default value in the default setting as well.
> We've evaluated that increase in a handful of medium sized mesh
> networks (5-20 nodes) with single and dual band devices, with changes
> for the better (shorter routes, higher throughput) or no change at all.
> 
> This patch changes the hop penalty to 30, which will give an effective
> penalty of 60 on single band devices (hop penalty + wifi penalty).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
> ---
>  soft-interface.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied in revision 7644650.

Thanks,
Marek

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