Got it, thanks. -- Jehan Tremback [email protected]
On Sat, Dec 24, 2016, at 08:14 PM, jens wrote: > On 24.12.2016 17:35, Jehan Tremback wrote: > > Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why would batman-adv affect the > > speed? > > not directly, > > or i don't understand where your conclusion came from. batman-adv means > a lot of little batman-mesh-protocoll packets (namely ogm packets, > protocoll traffic is around 300 kbits in our network. which also will > travel over gretap/wireguard) > > this scenario is equivalent to our free wifi network with 300++ nodes > and +-1000 users. > We use batman-adv as mesh protocol. While wireguard is layer 3 we need > to have layer2 over this tunnel. > so i tested wireguard + gretap + batman-adv successfully. > > compared to a other known layer2 crypted tunnel protocol (fastd) this is > 3 times faster, which is mainly due to wireguard is a kernel-module and > fastd lay in userspace. (-> context switche) > > i testet on weak devices, because this is what is deployed in big > numbers in our (and many other) Freifunk community. > also there are plenty of packets and stuff - so this explain the > relative low throughput. At least compared with clean linked test-setups. > > hope this explain my motivation and the reason why i test this in this > special scenario. > > Jens/fuzzle > > -- > make the world nicer, please use PGP encryption > > _______________________________________________ WireGuard mailing list [email protected] https://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/wireguard
