Hi Chuck!

Hmmmmm........

Guess I'm not sure what a "packet storm" is.   I do recall a fiasco, one year, during Hamvention, when we linked the south California AREDN network to ours.  A few hundred additional nodes showed up on our mesh status page, and just that overhead load alone crashed our network and prevented us from moving any traffic.  Is that the condition the new firmware is intended to prevent?

In order to participate in the test, do we simply have to link as many networks as possible by opening tunnels, or is it necessary to generate local traffic loads as well?   What is the criteria to determine test success?

Bill  WA8APB

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021, 5:54 AM Chuck Gelm <[email protected]> wrote:

"Big network test coming!

It's Linktober!  "Meshoween" is coming :-)

We've found that as networks grow both in node count and complexity, it's almost inevitable that they'll suffer from a packet storm (or storms) eventually.

Now that the patch for mitigating those network packet storms has been rolled into an AREDN nightly build, we've decided that it's time to stress-test our network. 
On October 30th (starting at say, 9 a.m. local time) we'll attempt to link as many networks together to see how the network behaves. 
If you have a long-haul tunnel that you can bring up, feel free to do so.

HOWEVER, if you decide to participate in the test, or think you might be on a network that gets linked in, it's highly
recommended that you update your node(s) to nightly build 571 or later
to "inoculate" them against a possible incoming network storm.

Before October 30th, we'll provide a reminder and instructions on what to monitor during the test.
Thanks in advance for your consideration!  Please pass this along to your AREDN network neighbors.

Orv W6BI
(on behalf of the AREDN dev team)"


How does the MVMA group feel about participating in this test?

Chuck

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