[Babel-users] maximum nodes that babel supports

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> Hi, I'd like to know the maximum nodes that babel supports, is there a
> limit???

There's no hard limit.  Babel should scale very well in the total
number of nodes, slightly less well in the number of neighbours.  In
other words, it will work very well in a large, sparse network, but
not quite as well if your network is so dense that a single node has
hundreds of direct neighbours.

If your network has more than a few thousand routers (without aggregation),
we might need to improve the data structures used in the implementation.  
No changes to the protocol should be needed.

Note that 802.11 ad-hoc mode has some limitations which you'll hit way
before you hit the limits of Babel.

-- Juliusz