Thanks for clarify :) The initial email was confusing. I hope to be again at the battlemesh next year.
Have fun and send my greetings to all. Saverio Il 08/ago/2015 13:17, "Juliusz Chroboczek" <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Hi Saverio, long time no hear. Pity you're not here. > > > So why they switched to babel ? > > babel makes some magic with MTU ? > > Nope. > > The way I understand it, they had trouble with BATMAN's encapsulation in > a heterogeneous network (were it is difficult or impossible to increase > the link-layer MTU to 1532). > > Recall that: > > 1. BATMAN adds 32 octets of overhead to every frame; > 2. BATMAN requires the same MTU on all segments. > > The result is that if you have just one segment that cannot increase the > link-layer MTU beyond 1500, you need to run your mesh with a network-layer > MTU of 1468. Apparently that is the situation they found themselves in, > and were unable to get it to work reliably. > > From what I gather, they're a community with unusual needs (strong emphasis > on decentralision and privacy, heterogeneous hardware, diverse userbase, > etc.), they're probably run into some snags with Babel too. Which should > be interesting, and likely to improve Babel. > > Time to do some testing, see you later. > > -- Juliusz >
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