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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Quagga zebra API client for BATMAN
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 13:00:13 +0200
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Hello,

Στις Wednesday 02 January 2008 17:14:21 ο/η Marek Lindner έγραψε:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for submitting your work. I published it on our website so that
> others can find it: https://www.open-mesh.net/batman/patches

Thank you Marek. :)

> By the way: Using the TTL as basis for a hop metric is ambiguous and may
> lead to errors. By doing so you assume that every host uses the same start
> TTL and every hop decreases it in the same way. The B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol
> does not demand or enforce this behaviour.
> On the other hand the hop count does not reflect the quality of a path. May
> be it would be a better approach to calculate the link quality into the
> metric so that hop based protocols can do a better decission.
>

Yes, I have noticed the potential problem with TTL. At this moment, TTL 
setting must be the same throughout the whole network for zebra metrics to be 
calculated correctly. I will try to implement a more appropriate metric 
calculation based on actual link quality as soon as I feel familiarized 
enough with the BATMAN protocol.

Regards,
Vasilis