[Babel-users] late hellos

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> I used to have a patch to update_neighbour that logged late hellos.  The
> new update_neighbor code in 1.8.3, well, in a half hour of staring at it
> I didn't figure out a good place to stick this. But it was a useful
> patch to have. you can't fix what you can't measure.

Try the "missed_hellos < 0" case in the second branch of the else.

>                     /* FIXME: An overbuffered neighbor should get its metric
>                               bumped up so someone else can take the load off.
>                               This msg should also print the delay here. */

That should not be necessary, at least in the wireless case.  We've
already discarded the missed hellos, so the link cost should have
increased already.

-- Juliusz