[MVMA] AREDN Development status

[Chuck Gelm NC8Q]

On 9/3/25 16:05, Orv Beach wrote:
> When AREDN forked off the Broadband Hamnet software in  2015, they 
> inherited OLSR V1 as the routing protocol.    It had been deprecated 
> years before because of known shortcomings, but AREDN had to live with 
> it.  Over the years several band-aids were applied to the OLSR 
> protocol and it became mostly usable.
>
> The hunt for a replacement routing protocol started in earnest several 
> years ago and Babel was selected.  It's much 'smarter' about network 
> topology and conditions than OLSR and uses less bandwidth to maintain 
> a node's knowledge of the surrounding network.
>
> That being said, like with OLSR, we hams are using Babel in a manner 
> the developers probably didn't anticipate and as a result you AREDN 
> users have uncovered some issues that have been addressed (and 
> continue to be addressed) via nightly builds.
>
> The bottom line: *your network will work better with a current nightly 
> build in your nodes.*   Give it some serious consideration.
>
> 73
>
> Orv W6BI
>
> AREDN Project Manager
>

All:

Please give a nightly build some serious consideration.

*Bold* above is mine.

73, Chuck
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