[CUWiN-Dev] volatile ETX & routing

[David Young]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:44:51AM -0500, Bill Comisky wrote:
> We've had our network users reporting that their connections have been 
> less stable since moving from OSPF to HSLSD.
> 
> First some qualtitative observations that've been reported:
> 
> - Connections will go up and down, at one moment look good (good ping
>   times, good download rates) and then bad the next.
> 
> - Adding a new node to the system makes everyones connections locally go
>   haywire for a bit then things tend to settle down; this seemed
>   especially apparent when booting up a local laptop node to do upgrades.
>   This may have been more prevalent when there were only a few HSLS nodes
>   up in the network.
> 
> - The routing tables are very dynamic, with routes sometimes changing
>   several times in the span of (one?) minute.
> 
> - The routes chosen (often short lived) sometimes seem a poor choice,
>   routing through someone much farther away that has a poor connection to
>   everyone to get to a nearby gateway.

I have fixed a bunch of bugs affecting hellos and ETX.  Try again with
latest sources.

Dave

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