[Olsr-dev] Seeking comments: OLSR+ETX v/s DSR+ETX

[Hannes Gredler]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:21:21AM +0900, David Murray wrote:
| Quoting sebastian sauer <(spam-protected)>:
| 
| On the topic of OLSR and ETX:
| >
| > what differs greatly is the linkquality definition/implementation.
| > this part is not properly implemented in OLSR at the moment, in fact
| > the current implementation can only be explained by "voodoo-magic" but
| > not on the grounds of rational thought.
| >
| > i already worked on a patch, but never found time for testing it properly
| > or to bring this topic to this ML.
| >
| > cheers,
| > s.
| 
| I thought that ETX was working fine in OLSR? What parts of ETX are 
| currently not working?

one of th eissues is its bandwidth agnosticness.
basically a fast-ethernet link get the same etx than
a 1Mbit WLAN link. the ides is to enhance the existing
ETX with an ETT that also factors in the underlying available
bandwidth.

/hannes