Re: Babel RTT mechanism [Was: [RESEND PATCH v3] Babel: allow choosing link quality estimation] algorithm]

2023-11-08 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 11:56:32AM -0500, Nick Cao wrote: > I think it is the intended design. Link quality is about packet losses, > while RTT is about, well, RTT, they cover different characteristics of the > link, which should all be taken into account for metric calculation. RTT has two

Re: Babel RTT mechanism [Was: [RESEND PATCH v3] Babel: allow choosing link quality estimation] algorithm]

2023-11-08 Thread Nick Cao via Bird-users
I think it is the intended design. Link quality is about packet losses, while RTT is about, well, RTT, they cover different characteristics of the link, which should all be taken into account for metric calculation. And babeld the reference implementation also allows enabling link quality

Re: Babel RTT mechanism [Was: [RESEND PATCH v3] Babel: allow choosing link quality estimation] algorithm]

2023-11-08 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> And babeld the reference implementation also allows enabling link quality >> estimation and the RTT extension at the same time, matching the current >> behavior of bird. Exactly right. > Considering that ETX estimates number of retransmissions, then for > algorithm that takes into account

Babel RTT mechanism [Was: [RESEND PATCH v3] Babel: allow choosing link quality estimation] algorithm]

2023-11-08 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 09:24:56PM -0400, Nick Cao via Bird-users wrote: > Resend of the patch in > http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2023-June/017058.html > > ETX link quality estimation algorithm is useful for link types other than > wireless, > especially when using babel with