<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’m only running one babeld instance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>It happens with almost no data at all being passed except the babel overhead. I can watch it in wireshark.<div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 22, 2018, at 5:54 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek <<a href="mailto:jch@irif.fr" class="">jch@irif.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">but when I tested it yesterday, it was still uninstalling routes that<br class="">were reachable on a regular basis after the metric went to 2^16. Then<br class="">about 2-5 seconds later, it would put them back in.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">So the routing protocol is doing fine, it's the link quality estimator<br class="">that's unstable. Good.<br class=""><br class="">First, make sure that you're not running two instances of babeld on the<br class="">same node. (The common symptom of that is that the two LQ estimators<br class="">interfere.)<br class=""><br class="">Second, you'll need to understand why the LQ estimator is fluctuating. Is<br class="">it due to the data traffic crowding out the LQ estimator, e.g. because the<br class="">link layer is dropping multicasts under load? Or do the fluctuations<br class="">happen even in the absence of data traffic?<br class=""><br class="">-- Juliusz<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>