[Olsr-users] Route convergence time: a function of scale?

[Hannes Gredler]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:52:50PM -0300, Breno Jacinto wrote:
|     OK, but that's exactly my point. If I got no TC messages *yet*,
| doesnt mean the node is NOT in the network. I mean: the IP address may
| be already allocated, but, for whatever reason, not every node in the
| network is *aware* of it. Maybe the TC message is not reaching a given
| node to inform it of a new joining node. So, this could be a problem
| in cases of finding a duplicate / unused IP address, using a simple
| ping.
| 
|      My question is how long would be this delay, and if there is any
| study or practical experiments that demonstrating how long it takes
| for everyone become aware of a joining node. In small scale networks,
| of course this isnt much of an issue.

thats mostly a matter of the average TC origination in your network.
at funkfeuer.at (app. 400 nodes) i get 90% of all the routes after 30sec.

/hannes