Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [Babel-users] Wireless Battle Mesh v4 - Call for papers

2011-01-23 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
Marek, On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 07:33:01PM +0100, Marek Lindner wrote: * The technical track is taking place throughout the week (monday till friday) The original announce by Juliusz says the event is from Wed 16th till Sun 20th. Your mail implies that it would start Mon 14th. Could anybody

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [Battlemesh] Battlemesh v5 tests

2012-03-07 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
[CC: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org, see note 3 in particular] Antonio, On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:17:52PM +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote: Technical details about what? Interface-alternating? It is there! Gabriel wrote the link. No. Please re-read my email carefuly. The wiki contains a

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [Battlemesh] Battlemesh v5 tests

2012-03-09 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
Hi Benjamin, On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 10:17:47AM +0100, Benjamin Henrion wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Simon Wunderlich Maybe algorithm is a big word for a little feature like that. The bonding and interface alternating basically work in two steps:  1) detect that a neighbor is

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [Battlemesh] Battlemesh v5 tests

2012-03-09 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
Hey Simon, On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:56:36AM +0100, Simon Wunderlich wrote: 1) The detection part is batman-specific, we use the the PRIMARIES_FIRST_HOP flag to do that. As a reminder (that might be documented somewhere else): * OGMs from the primary interface are broadcasted on ALL

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [Battlemesh] Battlemesh v5 tests

2012-03-09 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:26:54PM +0800, Marek Lindner wrote: The concept of a primary interface goes back into the early days of batman and primarily is an optimization to reduce overhead. At some point we realized that it is not necessary to flood the mesh with OGMs from each and every

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [Battlemesh] Battlemesh v5 tests

2012-03-09 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
Antonio, On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:39:06PM +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote: Does that mean that it is impossible to announce a route on some interfaces only? It looks like a rather arbitrary limitation. OGMs are broadcasted over all the interfaces (there may be some neighs reachable

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [Battlemesh] Battlemesh v5 tests

2012-03-09 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
Andrew, On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:09:26PM +, andrew.l...@ascom.com wrote: Consider the following topology: l0 l1 A B C l2 where --- is a single link (l0) and === are two links (l1 and l2). Now imagine that the administator wants

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [Battlemesh] Battlemesh v5 tests

2012-03-09 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
Andrew, On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:09:26PM +, andrew.l...@ascom.com wrote: Remember that BATMAN is a Layer 2 mesh, not layer 3. Sorry, I just recalled what it implies. You can ignore my previous answer, I was focused on babel-like, layer 3 examples. -- Gabriel