On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:18:35PM +0200, Julian Bäume wrote: > 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.
With the latest version of tinc you can limit broadcasts in several ways; see
the Broadcast option in the manual. Manuel Munz (soma) seems to find this
useful when running OLSR over tinc.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <[email protected]>
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