[Babel-users] Babel TTL

[Moritz Warning]

On 4/8/20 12:03 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>> what is the maximum hop distance that babel supports by default?
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> The metric overflows at 2^16 - 1.
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> A single wired hop is 96 by default.  A single wireless hop with no packet
> loss is 256.  A wireless hop with packet loss can have a much larger metric.
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>> I have ran Babel on big (virtual) networks and get some funny results.
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> Please let us know more details.
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> -- Juliusz
>

My simulation runs up to 1000 nodes in one single line and sees some packet drops. With (2^16 - 1) / 96 ~= 683 as the maximum reach of hops might offer some explanation. But I have to pull the logs from the server again.