Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] broadcast storms

[Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>]

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Hi Jake,

On Monday, November 12, 2018 2:29:07 PM CET Jake.Harris@zf.com wrote:
> My apologies bringing this back but I'm still having trouble with this. Each
> of my 50 nodes sends a 100 byte packet via broadcast every 30 seconds, even
> if coincidently they all transmit it at the same time that's only 5kB of
> data to move, much under the 1MB (default I believe?) bandwidth for
> multicast. Unless there's a large amount of broadcast traffic outside of my
> python program I don't see this being the culprit.

Mhm, this is really not much data ... did you try the multicast as suggested 
in an earlier reply?

> 
> The storms tend to start when connection to a few nodes gets flakey, so I
> can see the reset protection setting being helpful, how do I set
> BATADV_RESET_PROTECTION_MS? Is this an environment variable or do I set it
> with batctl?

BATADV_RESET_PROTECTION_MS is a define in the batman-adv C-code, so it can't be 
set at runtime but only at compile time.

Cheers,
       Simon

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