[Babel-users] some thoughts towards babel-1.9

[Dave Taht]

I've long been testing a few out of tree patches for babel and long
have had the intent to try a few more once the first phase of the
make-wifi-fast work was completed - which it mostly is, so far as lede
is concerned ( https://lwn.net/Articles/705884/ ) - and babel-1.8
stablized.

I wrote up some of my thinking then in:

https://github.com/dtaht/rabeld/blob/master/rabel.md

back when we were having powersave issues affecting multicast (which I
hope is now fixed), but I've partially deployed the "mo' unicast"
patch around my testbed with no ill results.

Another thing that has come up a lot lately is the default gateway
failing for some reason or another, tighter integration with
babel-pinger might help.

And lastly, I had a chance to look at some packet captures from the
wlan-slovenia network, which is essentially flat, and is sending 14
packets worth of route information on a regular basis. Finding ways to
attenuate and create covering routes, and make DV more DV would be
nice.

I'd also written up some partially crazy thoughts towards a unicast
hello extension in the same repo.

-- 
Dave Täht
Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!
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