Re: [homenet] Dynamic metrics in IS-IS

[Henning Rogge <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<[e-mail]> wrote:
>> a valid test of the metric setting features would be to have two wifi
>> networks, one 2.4GHz, one 5Ghz, two different L2s, different IP
>> networks, and then walk around with two clients connected together with
>> a network cable, and check if the routing would change from the 5GHz
>> network to the 2.4GHz network as distance from the AP increases and the
>> 5GHz network stops working.
>
> That would be an interesting test if you can show that Christian's code
> works better in this case than plain IS-IS and not much worse than
> a recent babeld.  Both in an unloaded network and under load (10Mbit/s
> constant-rate UDP is what I like to test against, but some people think
> that TCP is more realistic).

The Wifi stress testing script Dave Taht brought to the Battlemesh V8
might also be interesting for this... 10 Mbit/s UDP traffic will be
really tame on a modern wifi. Even multihop 100 Mbit/s could not dent
or test mesh on the Battlemesh V8.

http://docs.battlemesh.org/v8/3-blowing-up-the-network.html#test

Henning Rogge