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

[David Murray]

Quoting Hannes Gredler <(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
>

So what you are saying is that the ETX implementation is fine but that 
it needs to be improved by including a bandwidth component into the 
metric - essentially ETT.

Dave