[Battlemesh] Broadcast lost because of hidden station

[Gui Iribarren]

On 08/05/14 13:08, Ben West wrote:
> I'm curious if a recent changeset to OpenWRT trunk with Henning's name
> on it is relevant this to thread about unreliable multicasts:
> https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/40696/trunk

to me it looks like this addresses a simple "cosmetic" annoyance, where
if there's no unicast traffic from a particular station, "iw station
dump" will report a RX bitrate equal to that station multicast bitrate
(normally low, say 6 mbit)

with this patch, i imagine the "rx bitrate" field will always reflect
the last unicast packet received from that station, not taking into
account multicasts seen afterwards.

> 
> If so, has it yielded a noticeable improvement?
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Henning Rogge <hrogge at gmail.com
> <mailto:hrogge at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     RTS/CTS is a good explanation... I remember seeing RTS packets, maybe
>     the CTS wasn't visible in my trace because it was produced by the
>     local station.
> 
>     Still its an annoying problem... routing agent drops route because of
>     no multicasts but in theory unicast still works.
> 
>     Henning
> 
>     On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Paul Fuxjaeger <fuxjaeger at ftw.at
>     <mailto:fuxjaeger at ftw.at>> wrote:
>     > On 26.04.14 12:07, Henning Rogge wrote:
>     >> but I would expect that at least "one in five" broadcasts would make
>     >> it through, because unicasts get up to 4 retransmissions.
>     >
>     > retransmission are sent in "fast" succession, maybe that helps to get
>     > them received easier or maybe RTS/CTS is enabled?
>     >
>     > But if you don't see those non-retried frames EVER (multicast FER=1
>     > while unicast FER<<1 while using the same channel code) this
>     sounds like
>     > the problem is located somewhere "higher".
>     >
>     >
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