[Babel-users] paralysis

[Christof Schulze]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 01:09:41PM -0800, Dave Taht wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 12:47 PM Dave Taht <dave at taht.net> wrote:

>> Christof Schulze <christof.schulze at gmx.net> writes:

>> >>(why is there a 20 interface limit in kernel_netlink.c?), but
>> > Why indeed? I am hoping to run babeld with >150 interfaces soonish.
>> > Of course I can adjust the define but I'd rather have this limitation
>> > understood than just fiddling with it.
>
>This is one of those design things I just don't understand. I assume
>that 148 of these are tunnels?
>
>Here I am having added two wireguard tunnels to my whole network,
>touching down on two different machines,
>and about to add two more between creaky pieces of the network over a
>backup link. I can hardly imagine wanting to deal with more
>complexity than that, I've already put myself into a loop twice....
This is a public network where nodes can freely connect. We will have 
many VPN connections and babeld hopefully bring order in the resulting 
topology mess. What could possibly go wrong? :-)

In any case - 20 is not enough unless I am bridging. And that is not 
going to happen with that amount of interfaces.

viele Grüße

Christof


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