How to set multicast rate ?

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:29 PM, h2o-post <h2o-post at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> In our Freifunk mesh network we run several broadcom devices in adhoc
> modewith olsr routing.
>
> To move to b43 we did some testing with current OpenWrt trunk and b43.
>
> One crutial observation we made: We were not able to find the knob to change
> the multicast rate in b43.
>
> Since this is an essential tuning parameter in our current mesh and
> essential for proper olsr routing.
>
> To be more precise, olsr probing traffic is send out as mulicast traffic,
> therefore we use a multicast rate
>
> e.g. of 6MBit/sec … so in densed mesh you got only routes with the multicast
> rate as lower limit.
>
> Is there any secret I missed to change the multicast rate in b43 ?
>
> If this is not implemented so far, what would be a sketch to help here
> implementing ?

Read the documentation for rate_control_send_low() :

http://tinyurl.com/rate-controlhttp://tinyurl.com/rate-control-send-low-send-low

  Luis