On Friday, January 04, 2013 23:12:59 NicoEchániz wrote: > > Selection class 3 and beyond do change the gateway when a better one > > becomes available. But as you correctly pointed out these selection > > classes don't consider the announced bandwidth for the simple reason > > that nobody cared. In most wireless scenarios (the main playground for > > batman-adv) the path towards the gateway turned out to be more critical > > than the gateway's pipe to the internet. > > > > Feel free to propose something if you care about having this option. The > > necessary code shouldn't be too hard to add. Backward compatibility will > > be more difficult to achieve. > > I believe that those of us who chose to use selection class 1 would > prefer if it were "dynamic". So if a new gateway appears, then the > client would evaluate with the same previous criteria if it is better or > not (considering "the gateway's advertised throughput as well as the > link quality") and switch accordingly. I see no reason why when someone > chooses selection class 1 she would be expecting to choose the best > available gw once and not ever check again. > > If a network is stable, when a new better gw appears in some area it > won't be selected until nodes are restarted, and that might be a long time.
You misread my statement. Nobody needs to be convinced of the usefulness of such a feature (at least for what concerns myself). Somebody needs to come up with a solid proposal which then needs to be implemented. That is what I meant by saying "Feel free to propose something [..]". Note that switching immediately as soon as a better gateway comes around isn't the best solution. Imagine a case in which a gateway announcing the highest bandwidth in your network barely is visible for your gateway client. It will keep switching between gateways, thereby breaking all your stateful connections such as: ssh, vpns, video & music streams, etc > One other change that might be interesting would be the addition of a > setting for how much the advertised throughput affects gw selection. > I've seen Jan uses 96/96Mbit as advertised throughput on one router; I > do the same on our "main gateway", but maybe it would be better if we > could actually advertise the real throughput and have a setting to > control how much the bandwidth difference affects the selection. Again, feel free to propose something which can be discussed. Cheers, Marek
