netname by id - possible?

[Guus Sliepen]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:18:35PM +0200, Julian Bäume wrote:

> Well, it’s not exactly tinc’s fault, but the combination of batman-adv with 
> tinc. batman-adv sends out broadcast packets once every second (default), to 
> maintain the wireless mesh connections. When sending these packets over tinc-
> tunnels, this adds another broadcast domain and therefore tinc acts as a 
> "multiplier" for these packets.
> 
> In Luebeck we are aware of this issue and are working on a solution. The kbu-
> community is also aware of this (Jan works on the firmware for kbu). We think, 
> this can’t be solved within tinc without some redesign of the protocol.

With the latest version of tinc you can limit broadcasts in several ways; see
the Broadcast option in the manual. Manuel Munz (soma) seems to find this
useful when running OLSR over tinc.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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