[PATCH 0/3] babel: Add support for the RTT extension

Juliusz Chroboczek jch at irif.fr
Tue Feb 28 23:24:44 CET 2023


> My thinking was that filters may want to do something like:
> 
> if (metric == smoothed_metric)
>   metric += 100; /* route is stable, we can apply our policy */
> 
> but I honestly don't know if that's useful for anything in reality :)

I'm a little conflicted on this.  On the one hand, it's nice to give
administrators more flexibility.  On the other hand, I want Babel to be as
automated as possible: that's why Babel supported ETX from the outset, and
that's why we developed RTT: so that Babel could adapt to a variety of
real-world networks with minimal human intervention.

Toke, what problem are you aiming to solve, and are we able to develop an
algorithm that solves this problem without configuring policies manually?

-- Juliusz


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