relayer with last MAC byte =00 - is this working ok ?

[Marek-mk]

Hello,
I recently got some routing problems sending messages, and they seem to be associated with a node in our netwok which has its address (hex) ending in 0000. I worked on a piece of meshtastic code as of v.2.6.13, and the last byte of relayer node was its internal identification (not unique) and value of 00 meaned empty. Serious update was made to the code since then, and I didn't follow it thorougly, so question to people who are current with routing code:

• are nodes with 00 as last byte of address correctly treated in routing code?

Regards, Marek

[GUVWAF]

Yes, in that case it should be converted to 0xFF:

firmware/src/mesh/NodeDB.h

Line 211 in 0081cec

uint8_t getLastByteOfNodeNum(NodeNum num) { return (uint8_t)((num & 0xFF) ? (num & 0xFF) : 0xFF); }

[Marek-mk]

Ok, thanks for reply.

Other case - I thought of converting nodedb to store names and keys (rarely changing node info) in flash, and keep only dynamic information about nodes in RAM, so nodedb coud be set to maybe 1000 nodes or more? But the dependencies killed me on this idea. Just something I saw, but don't feel to have resources to make real.

[GUVWAF]

Yes, that's a good idea and actually some work on this is currently being done: #8097.