On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> wrote: >>> interface hwsim0 wired false > >> I just want to know if Babel recognises the interface as wired or wireless. > > Do ``kill -USR1 $(cat /var/run/babel.pid)''. > > Babel will dump its internal tables to the log file. For each > neighbour, it will say something like > > Neighbour fe80::cc78:f832:a600:e20e dev beta reach ffff rxcost 96 txcost 96 > > Assuming you didn't tweak the interface costs, if the rxcost is always > either 96 or 65535, the interface is recognised as wired. If the rxcost > oscillates smoothly between 256 and 65535, then the interface is > wireless.
I will try to see how to build a network simulator, because I don't know how to connect hwsim interfaces to other virtual wireless interfaces, neither how to generate packet loss. I wonder if the hwsim interfaces are actually half-duplex. -- Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org> FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-4148403 _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
