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batctl: Add section to explain gateway selection class for BATMAN_V

Message ID bd7bec9a-c380-aa64-3cdd-e3cb63d0394a@r.z11.de (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Simon Wunderlich
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Series batctl: Add section to explain gateway selection class for BATMAN_V |

Commit Message

Ruben Barkow Nov. 27, 2018, 2 p.m. UTC 
  As mentioned here: https://www.open-mesh.org/issues/366#note-8

I added a fix to the formatting, so this is the final patch:

Signed-off-by: Ruben Barkow <github@r.z11.de>

Comments

Antonio Quartulli Nov. 27, 2018, 10:10 p.m. UTC | #1 
Hi,

On 28/11/2018 00:00, Ruben Barkow wrote:
> As mentioned here: https://www.open-mesh.org/issues/366#note-8
> 
> I added a fix to the formatting, so this is the final patch:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ruben Barkow <github@r.z11.de>

Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Sven Eckelmann Nov. 28, 2018, 7:29 a.m. UTC | #2 
On Dienstag, 27. November 2018 15:00:39 CET Ruben Barkow wrote:
> As mentioned here: https://www.open-mesh.org/issues/366#note-8

Applied as 26b483ce543e [1]. Thanks for taking care of the wiki entry and the 
manpage.

Please send it next time as inline patch [2]. I had to manually adjust the 
commit message because of that. Otherwise it would have looked like this:

    batctl: Add section to explain gateway selection class for BATMAN_V
    
    As mentioned here: https://www.open-mesh.org/issues/366#note-8
    
    I added a fix to the formatting, so this is the final patch:
    
    Signed-off-by: Ruben Barkow <github@r.z11.de>
    Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
    
    >From c3561b556c57546b2a089b830bd78ada7cd46218 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
    From: rubo77 <github@r.z11.de>
    Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:40:29 +0100
    Subject: [PATCH] batctl: Add section to explain gateway selection class for
     BATMAN_V
    
    Signed-off-by: Ruben Barkow <github@r.z11.de>
    Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

Kind regards,
	Sven


[1] https://git.open-mesh.org/batctl.git/commit/26b483ce543e5b4bf6869a66c0ef28ef7a00e367
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.19/process/email-clients.html
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Patch

From c3561b556c57546b2a089b830bd78ada7cd46218 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rubo77 <github@r.z11.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:40:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] batctl: Add section to explain gateway selection class for
 BATMAN_V

Signed-off-by: Ruben Barkow <github@r.z11.de>
---
 man/batctl.8 | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/batctl.8 b/man/batctl.8
index 2e3232f..ed8e71f 100644
--- a/man/batctl.8
+++ b/man/batctl.8
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@  examples:  5000 \->  5.0/1.0 MBit
 If the node is a gateway client the parameter will decide which criteria to consider when the batman-adv module has to choose
 between different internet connections announced by the aforementioned servers.
 .RE
+.RS 7
+B.A.T.M.A.N. IV:
+.RE
 .RS 17
 default: 20 \-> late switch (TQ 20)
 .RE
@@ -168,6 +171,20 @@  chooses the gateway with the best link quality but switches to another gateway a
 least XX TQ better than the currently selected gateway (XX has to be a number between 3 and 256).
 .RE
 .RE
+.RS 7
+B.A.T.M.A.N. V:
+.RE
+.RS 17
+default: 5000 \-> late switch (5000 kbit/s throughput)
+.br
+example: 1500 \-> fast switch connection
+.RS 17
+switches to another gateway as soon as a better one is found which is at least 
+1500 kbit/s faster throughput than the currently selected gateway. Throughput is
+determined by evaluating which is lower: the advertised throughput by the
+gateway or the maximum bandwidth across the entire path.
+.RE
+.RE
 .br
 .IP "\fBrouting_algo\fP|\fBra\fP [\fBalgorithm\fP]\fP"
 If no parameter is given the current routing algorithm configuration as well as
-- 
2.17.1