[This is cross-posted between babel-users and Homenet@IETF, please choose your followups wisely.]
You might remember the stub-only implementation of Babel that I published last week-end: https://github.com/jech/sbabeld After playing some more with it, I've come to the conclusion that it could be useful under some circumstances. Apologies to anyone who tried to convince me otherwise -- you were right, I was wrong. I have therefore spent part of yesterday evening debugging and improving it. It's still 12kB text, but it now performs better route selection, times out unreachable neighbours in a timely manner, and uses the link-quality estimates published by neighbours (but doesn't measure its own). Convergence time is still slow (10s on average), but I don't see a good way to improve it without maintaining a set of alternate routes If you decide to use this in production (which is not completely unreasonable now), please let me know, since I'd like to know how it should evolve. There are two possible directions: - smaller: remove reverse reachablity detection and route selection (just pick whichever neighbour sends an update first); - larger: maintain a table of alternate routes, which would dramatically improve convergence speed. Thanks for your help, -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
