Dear all, The current master branch of babeld is scheduled to become babeld-1.9.0 really really soon. It's been a long time coming, but I hope it will be worth it.
The main news is that the output buffering logic has been largely restructured so that it is now possible to run babeld using mostly Unicast packets; this can be useful on networks with abysmally poor multicast performance, and is a required feature for the DTLS branch. See the option "unicast" in the manual page. A long-standing issue with babeld being too noisy at startup has been identified by Teco Boot; babeld will no longer collapse your network when large numbers of routers reboot at the same time (say, after a power outage). Another long-standing issue has been identified by Dave Taht that caused poor performance where huge numbers of routes were redistributed into babel (tens of thousands). Killian Lufau and Christof Schulze have added a feature that allows setting the preferred source address in install filters. This is useful if you're running babeld on multihomed hosts, and the kernel chooses the wrong address. (In related news, the hmac branch is progressing quite nicely, and will hopefully be ready in time for babeld-x, where x will be either 1.10.0 or 2.0.0.) Please help us test the current master branch. -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
