diff --git a/blog/2024/August/why-meshtastic-uses-managed-flood-router.mdx b/blog/2024/August/why-meshtastic-uses-managed-flood-router.mdx index 15e0b43e..6d1cbf39 100644 --- a/blog/2024/August/why-meshtastic-uses-managed-flood-router.mdx +++ b/blog/2024/August/why-meshtastic-uses-managed-flood-router.mdx @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors: [thebentern, GUVWAF] tags: [meshtastic, technical] date: 2024-08-18T12:00 hide_table_of_contents: false -image: "/design/web/social-preview-1200x630.png" +image: "/static/img/blog/route_plot.png" --- Designing a low-bandwidth wireless mesh network to run on low-power microprocessors with limited memory is challenging. Arguably the simplest mesh routing protocol is Flood Routing: each radio receiving a packet will rebroadcast this again, up to a certain hop limit. Although Meshtastic is based on this strategy, there are a few subtle, but significant enhancements. Most importantly, before a node rebroadcasts, it waits a short while and listens if anyone else is rebroadcasting already. If so, it won’t rebroadcast again. Therefore, “Managed Flood Routing” would be a better name. For more details on the enhancements, please review our [documentation](https://meshtastic.org/docs/overview/mesh-algo/).