[Tinyos-help] eetx value doesn't increase for neighbors

[Omprakash Gnawali]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Philippe BAYLE <filipaillou at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your answer,
> I thought that etx value should increase once the link becomes bad...?
> What I understand now is that the link eetx is only increased  for the
> parent motes, not for the neighbors....unless you send data packets that you
> see there not  acknowledged....but beacons don't use acknowledgment so I
> can't know if neighbors in the table are alive or not...

The EETX value will decrease but much slower than you expect because
the beacon frequency is controlled by a Trickle timer which might be
firing at large intervals.

- om_p