On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:58:03AM +0200, Paul Spooren wrote: Choosing the channel automatically in a mesh environment is not a trivial problem, esp. if you intend to maximize overal spectrum utilization. It'd be interesting to figure out a good way to solve this distributed map coloring problem in such a way that the network graph isn't hurt (ie. all nodes remain as well connected as they'd be if just one specific channel is used on each band) and at the same time adapt to local environments (avoid overlap with other networks)... Hence we use a fixed channel, or rather several fixed channels and try to solve that map-coloring manually (or not at all) which certainly isn't ideal... gluon's hoodselector is one approach at auto-configuration, but it also doesn't solve the map-coloring issue and thus only makes sure the right (single) channel and other settings are chosen in a certain radio environment.