Re: [homenet] [Babel-users] Detecting bridges

Philip Homburg <pch-homenet-1a@u-1.phicoh.com> Thu, 17 December 2015 13:04 UTC

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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:01:43 +0100 ." <87twni49ag.wl-jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 14:04:49 +0100
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Cc: "babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org" <babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
Subject: Re: [homenet] [Babel-users] Detecting bridges
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In your letter dated Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:01:43 +0100 you wrote:
> 1. use the wireless type by default (as with -w), people who have
>    lossless wired links will need to configure them manually; this is bad
>    for Homenet, which is expected to use wired links extensively, but
>    perhaps it doesn't matter, Homenet can accept 15 seconds instead of 6;

Is there room in the protocol for a router to announce what link type it
is on? I.e., a router on wifi announces wifi and when a router that is on
wired receives an announcement from a router on wifi it knows that there
a bridge somewhere.