[CUWiN-Dev] volatile ETX & routing

[Bill Comisky]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, David Young wrote:

> 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.

cool.. I've been following the commit logs.  We'll report back with any 
observations.

bill

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Bill Comisky
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