[fyi] test in the wild (wg + gretap + batman-adv) on tplink842

[Jehan Tremback]

Got it, thanks.

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  Jehan Tremback
  jehan at altheamesh.com

On Sat, Dec 24, 2016, at 08:14 PM, jens wrote:
> On 24.12.2016 17:35, Jehan Tremback wrote:
> > Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why would batman-adv affect the
> > speed?
> 
> not directly,
> 
> or i don't understand where your conclusion came from. batman-adv means
> a lot of little batman-mesh-protocoll packets (namely ogm packets,
> protocoll traffic is around 300 kbits in our network. which also will
> travel over gretap/wireguard)
> 
> this scenario is equivalent to our free wifi network with 300++ nodes
> and +-1000 users.
> We use batman-adv as mesh protocol. While wireguard is layer 3 we need
> to have layer2 over this tunnel.
> so i tested wireguard + gretap + batman-adv   successfully.
> 
> compared to a other known layer2 crypted tunnel protocol (fastd) this is
> 3 times faster, which is mainly due to wireguard is a kernel-module and
> fastd lay in userspace. (-> context switche)
> 
> i testet on weak devices, because this is what is deployed in big
> numbers in our (and many other) Freifunk community.
> also there are plenty of packets and stuff - so this explain the
> relative low throughput. At least compared with clean linked test-setups.
> 
> hope this explain my motivation and the reason why i test this in this
> special scenario.
> 
> Jens/fuzzle
> 
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