From: Jehan Tremback <jehan@altheamesh.com>
To: jens <jens@viisauksena.de>,
WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [fyi] test in the wild (wg + gretap + batman-adv) on tplink842
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 17:24:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1483061047.444229.832649505.0712D346@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1439626e-1f99-83fb-aab5-6a316346801e@viisauksena.de>
Got it, thanks.
--
Jehan Tremback
jehan@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
>
> --
> make the world nicer, please use PGP encryption
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-30 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-24 0:24 jens
2016-12-24 16:35 ` Jehan Tremback
2016-12-25 4:14 ` jens
2016-12-30 1:24 ` Jehan Tremback [this message]
2016-12-31 2:30 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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