Hello, Am 03.07.2012 um 14:18 schrieb Julian Bäume:
> hi! > > On Tuesday 03 July 2012 13:55:14 Guus Sliepen wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:04:17PM +0200, Jan Lühr wrote: >>> [1] We've seen up to 1MBit/s of mgmt-traffic (tinc + batman-adv) in a >>> network with 15 nodes - which is way too much for our freifunk-network, >>> that uses private ADSL-links >> Certainly not 1 Mbit/s continuous traffic? I would only suspect such an >> amount for just a second when a node makes a connection. > > Well, it’s not exactly tinc’s fault, but the combination of batman-adv with > tinc. batman-adv sends out broadcast packets once every second (default), to > maintain the wireless mesh connections. When sending these packets over tinc- > tunnels, this adds another broadcast domain and therefore tinc acts as a > "multiplier" for these packets. > > In Luebeck we are aware of this issue and are working on a solution. The kbu- > community is also aware of this (Jan works on the firmware for kbu). We > think, > this can’t be solved within tinc without some redesign of the protocol. > thanks for your reply - yeap, I'm aware your approach and I'm sure, that we'll have some chat next time I visit Luebeck. Anyway, I'm not convinced that a single broadcast-domain spawned by batman-adv is going to scale well compared to a routed setup, but you can still prove me wrong ;-) However, the discussion of freifunk network architectures (full bridging vs dynamic bridging) is off topic on a tinc mailinglist, so we better stop now ;-) - fup2 [email protected] Greetz, yanosz _______________________________________________ tinc mailing list [email protected] http://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc
