On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Guus Sliepen wrote: > 64 nodes is not an unusual number for tinc. In what way does the network > become > unstable?
In our network we had more or less the same problem. Reason were (as far as I could see) offline nodes, and (dyn-) DNS lookups, which for some nodes may take a while - and while the lookup is in progress tinc does not do anything else. With a few nodes you do not feel it, but with lots of them there were noticeable delays resulting in packet loss. (Just a small delay per remote node, but with >100 nodes you have this delay nearly always) We changed our topology to have a few (5-10) "primary" nodes where everyone connects to instead of full-mesh, and since then do not feel this problem anymore. Data transfers still go peer2peer where possible. c'ya sven-haegar -- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Ben F. _______________________________________________ tinc mailing list [email protected] http://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc
