...to discover that I was offering the shortest path to the exit nodes, and thus had bypassed the two existing ~50mbit links into lab links that were located indoors and going through a thousand+ meters of trees... that was barely doing a megabit with 800+ms of delay.

What was the issue? No multicast loss on the link? I find that difficult to believe.

(channel diversity not working did not help either)

Not sure about that -- if computing the channel number fails, babeld will assume that the link interferes with all other links, so the misconfigured link should be disfavoured.

I'm sure you already know that, but until I get around to rewriting the channel determination code for recent "we don't break userspace" Linux, you can work around it with manual configuration:

    interface wlan42 channel 42

After that experience, I decided that I would make the firmware for unconfigured nodes export a 512 metric,

Good plan, although I'd make it 32000. This way it'll be easy to spot an unconfigured node in BabelWeb.

Note that if you do that, you should apply it at the metric level, not at the

-- Juliusz

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