On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> The best would be to get the RX power right from the radio.  Does babel
>> currently get any info that way?
>
> No.  Contrary to pretty much everyone's intuition, RSSI is not a good
> predictor of packet loss.

Yes...

RSSI is a good indicator in mobile scenarios that something changed,
but not what kind of change to expect.

> Now the kernel is already measuring stuff in order to choose a rate.  The
> current plan is to ask the gentle kernel for its conclusions, and pick
> a metric based on that (idea due to Dave).  The data is already being
> exported by netlink in recent kernels (code due to Antonio Quartulli), so
> it should be a fairly simple thing to do.

How much unicast traffic does Babel send over links to each neighbors
on its own?

Henning Rogge

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