[Babel-users] Fastest convergence possible

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Stanisław Drozd <drozdziak1 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
> I'm developing a project which uses Babel and for testing I would set up
> some veth-connected Linux network namespaces to form a mesh of topology of
> my choosing. Using `-C "default update-interval 1" I was able to trim down
> my convergence time to about 5 seconds in a 4-node diamond topology.
>
> However, using a more convoluted 7-node setup I can hardly get under 40
> seconds.
>
> Are there any other good ways to further accelerate convergence?

Initial convergence should be faster than this due to triggered updates;
there was a bug in babeld where this was broken; have you tried the
latest git version?

-Toke