[Freifunk-Bonn] [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Packet-Loss-Peaks in a Freifunk-Network

[Marek Lindner]

On Thursday, January 03, 2013 22:16:32 Jan Lühr wrote:
> We noticed a few, unusual things:
> -> regardless of the link tested (kif or fastd3) and regardless of the node
> (node1, node2) small interruptions (loss-peaks) are appearing. -> These
> peaks appear almost synchronous, a few "noise" comes from different
> vpn-links and node-wan-uplinks. -> Since all links are wired, radio-noise
> won't have an impact
> -> The losses appear in batman-adv 2011.2.0 as well as in batman-adv
> 2012.4.0. Thus I suspect that batman-adv is triggering theses
> interruptions.

If you believe batman-adv is the culprit, please remove batman-adv from your 
test setup and repeat the exact same test. Otherwise we move into the realm of 
speculation.

Haven't heard of any "peak loss" due to batman-adv.

Cheers,
Marek


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