[Babel-users] Please test master

[Tim McLaughlin]

I’m only running one babeld instance.

It happens with almost no data at all being passed except the babel overhead.  I can watch it in wireshark.

> On Sep 22, 2018, at 5:54 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr> wrote:
> 
>> but when I tested it yesterday, it was still uninstalling routes that
>> were reachable on a regular basis after the metric went to 2^16. Then
>> about 2-5 seconds later, it would put them back in.
> 
> So the routing protocol is doing fine, it's the link quality estimator
> that's unstable.  Good.
> 
> First, make sure that you're not running two instances of babeld on the
> same node.  (The common symptom of that is that the two LQ estimators
> interfere.)
> 
> Second, you'll need to understand why the LQ estimator is fluctuating.  Is
> it due to the data traffic crowding out the LQ estimator, e.g. because the
> link layer is dropping multicasts under load?  Or do the fluctuations
> happen even in the absence of data traffic?
> 
> -- Juliusz
> 

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