[Olsr-dev] Testers for modified ETX metric wanted

[Henning Rogge]

Am Donnerstag 10 Juli 2008 10:21:47 schrieb Henning Rogge:
> Hello,
>
> I pushed amodified ETX metric into olsrd 0.5.6-rc7 so it can be tested more
> easily. The metric was discussed on the list some time ago and should
> output more stable ETX values than the old one.
>
> It can be activated by putting the line
>
> LinkQualityAlgorithm    "etx_ff"
>
> into the olsrd.conf file.
>
> I'm looking forward for test results of larger olsr networks (especially
> how a single node with the new metric behave when connected to nodes with
> the old metric).
I just did some bughunting with Aaron together and we found a small bug in the 
ff metric. The bug drops the LQ down zu zero when directly connected to a 
node with sends MID packets. The patch is already in the repository:

http://gredler.at/hg/olsrd/

Henning


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