[Babel-users] Multiple internet gateways in the mesh

[Benjamin Henrion]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 9:21 PM Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 10:42 AM Mark Shuttleworth
> <mark.shuttleworth at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks
> >
> > I run a mesh across three sites each of which has their own internet
> > connection, but they are of different capacities.
> >
> > Babel does a great job of keeping the three sites talking to one
> > another. But I am unable to get the default route behaviour that I would
> > like.
>
> > I would like to use the fastest internet connection that is
> > available for the whole mesh. If I can get all traffic going out of the
> > fastest internet connection, that would be great, and if not I'd like
> > the mesh to fall back to the second fastest, and finally third fastest
> > connection.
>
> Philosophically... what do you mean by fastest? Different capacities as per
> your above is one thing, but a heavily congested "high speed link" with an
> enormous bufferbloated FIFO is far worse than a fq_codel'd one.

I guess he means the announced bandwidth, as it is available on Batman
for example:

https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Tweaking#gateway-bandwidth-and-mode

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