Forwarded private message, on request by Simon. On Friday 27 March 2015 16:52:14 Ruben Wisniewski wrote: > Hello Simon, > > > we just updated our mesh, to the batman-adv-version 2014.4. Now your > patch batman-adv: increase default hop penalty[1] is included. > > Since we got very large mesh-networks, we have some troubles with your > patch, which makes long (needed) pathes unusable, because they TQ drop > to lower zero. > > Else, we got some old and some new batman-adv versions, this change > overloads the old nodes, because their TQ are better, and similiar > links over new nodes got ignored. > > Else I see no improvement overall, because the usual urban link-wide > is about 30-50 meteres, and we got parts of the net where we need 4-5 > hops to reach the last node. Your Patch seem to limit these pathes to > something around 3 hops. So parts of our net are now offline, and the > speed overall doesn't seem to be improved. > > After these experience I like to ask you, if you mind reverting this > patch again. Else we have to work around with resetting to 15 again on > boot, which I think is not the prefered solution. > > > [1] > http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/repository/revisions/7644650bb7 > 66bd4c7b6be5d97e6b1c3ed93a38d7 > > > Best regards, > > > Ruben
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