Re: Netrom qualities (again)

From: Tomi Manninen (dwtxlph@kerailya.tunkki.fi)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 17:25:32 EET

  • Next message: Roger Harris: "Re: Netrom qualities (again)"

    On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Roger Harris wrote:

    > Well, having playing with "The Net" and BPQ nodes for a number of years, I
    > can confirm that the normal behaviour of a node appears to be to calculate
    > the local quality first, and then to drop the route if the result is less
    > than the worst quality. In most cases, Sysops set worst_quality to 10,
    > which means that no node table should ever contain an entry with a quality
    > of less than 10.
    >
    > If it is not done in this way, users can see nodes in the table which have
    > very little chance of ever working.
    >
    > I hope this is helpful. I'm currently using the version of netromd from
    > ax25tool-0.0.6-24 which comes with the SuSE 7.0 distribution. Has there
    > been an update recently?

    No, but you can try the attached (completely untested) patch. Let me know
    if it works.

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