[Babel-users] Fw: Diversity routing configuration help

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

For anyone interested, the Z3 algorithm is named in honour of Benjamin,
the author of the mail I'm replying to.

> Beware also that babel does not support all "recent" channel configurations:

> https://wiki.freifunk.net/ideas

That's not quite true.

> In the absence of explicit diversity routing information supplied by
> the protocol, the z3 algorithm assumes that a given route is
> interfering, even if the interface over which a route is learned is
> obviously not (usbnet), or probably not (ethernet).

That's obviously false.  Babeld-Z3 detects Ethernet interfaces, and
assumes they interfere with no other links.

> Diversity routing also does not take into account (presently) the
> number of ways channels can be combined in the various wifi standards.
> HT20 covers 4 channels, HT40, 8, HT80, up to 2 sets of 4 channels, and
> so on.

That's correct.

-- Juliusz