Commit aa3517f0 authored by Juliusz Chroboczek's avatar Juliusz Chroboczek

Use the txcost as the cost of wired interfaces.

parent 474c11f8
......@@ -218,10 +218,6 @@ int
neighbour_cost(struct neighbour *neigh)
{
int c;
/* (1/(alpha * beta) + 1/beta) / 2, which is half the expected
number of transmissions, in both directions.
ETX uses 1/(alpha * beta), which is the expected number of
transmissions in the forward direction. */
if(neigh->txcost >= INFINITY)
return INFINITY;
......@@ -230,5 +226,18 @@ neighbour_cost(struct neighbour *neigh)
if(c >= INFINITY)
return INFINITY;
if(neigh->network->wired) {
/* On a wired interface, only the txcost is significant.
However, a low txcost with a large rxcost probably indicates
a malfunctioning interface, so penalise it. This doesn't
matter much, as we usually don't perform link quality estimation
on wired interfaces. */
return MIN(INFINITY, MAX(neigh->txcost, c / 4));
} else {
/* (1/(alpha * beta) + 1/beta) / 2, which is half the expected
number of transmissions, in both directions.
ETX uses 1/(alpha * beta), which is the expected number of
transmissions in the forward direction. */
return (c + ((c * neigh->txcost + 128) >> 8) + 1) / 2;
}
}
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