Re: [homenet] [Babel-users] Detecting bridges

2015-12-18 Thread Philip Homburg
>> I.e., a router on wifi announces wifi and when a router that is on wired >> receives an announcement from a router on wifi it knows that there >> a bridge somewhere. > >Not a bad idea, but I'm a little hesitant to implement that, since it >would require defining a taxonomy of interface types at

Re: [homenet] [Babel-users] Detecting bridges

2015-12-18 Thread Markus Stenberg
On 18.12.2015, at 11.53, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> Is there room in the protocol for a router to announce what link type it >> is on? > This could be carried by a sub-TLV of Hello (or a sub-TLV of IHU if you > want to make it per-host). > >> I.e., a router on wifi announces wifi and when a ro

Re: [homenet] [Babel-users] Detecting bridges

2015-12-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> Is there room in the protocol for a router to announce what link type it > is on? This could be carried by a sub-TLV of Hello (or a sub-TLV of IHU if you want to make it per-host). > I.e., a router on wifi announces wifi and when a router that is on wired > receives an announcement from a route

Re: [homenet] [Babel-users] Detecting bridges

2015-12-17 Thread STARK, BARBARA H
> Homenet, the issue we're dealing with is that babeld performs badly when > there is a transparent wireless bridge connected to a wired interface: the > interface is treated as a lossless wired interface, and if it suffers packet > loss, > there is repeated link flapping. I've had a lot of exp

Re: [homenet] [Babel-users] Detecting bridges

2015-12-17 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:01:43 +0100 you wrote: > 1. use the wireless type by default (as with -w), people who have >lossless wired links will need to configure them manually; this is bad >for Homenet, which is expected to use wired links extensively, but >perhaps it doe

Re: [homenet] [Babel-users] Detecting bridges

2015-12-16 Thread Mitar
Hi! On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > 3. find a way to make babeld less sensitive to links flapping in > non-redundant networks (it already behaves well when the flapping link > is redundant, but in a non-redundant topology it advertises every link > flap a

Re: [homenet] [Babel-users] Detecting bridges

2015-12-16 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Added Mikael and the Homenet list to CC. Homenet, the issue we're dealing with is that babeld performs badly when there is a transparent wireless bridge connected to a wired interface: the interface is treated as a lossless wired interface, and if it suffers packet loss, there is repeated link fla