On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 06:01:21PM +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote: > So while that was the main use-case for me before the discussions > we had last year on how to improve DAT, it's now more a minor one > for me. Though it would still be nice to have / work towards a zero-broadcast > mesh as RFC7772 for instance explains that frequent broadcasts > have a quite significant impact on battery power for small, mobile > devices. And the noflood option would be a quick and easy option > for us for now to achieve this for ARP and other packet types. > > [0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7772
More precisely, RFC7772 section 4 has some estimates regarding power cost for having frequent broadcast packets.
