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Linus Lüssing
07afe1ba28 batman-adv: mcast: implement multicast packet reception and forwarding
Implement functionality to receive and forward a new TVLV capable
multicast packet type.

The new batman-adv multicast packet type allows to contain several
originator destination addresses within a TVLV. Routers on the way will
potentially split the batman-adv multicast packet and adjust its tracker
TVLV contents.

Routing decisions are still based on the selected BATMAN IV or BATMAN V
routing algorithm. So this new batman-adv multicast packet type retains
the same loop-free properties.

Also a new OGM multicast TVLV flag is introduced to signal to other
nodes that we are capable of handling a batman-adv multicast packet and
multicast tracker TVLV. And that all of our hard interfaces have an MTU
of at least 1280 bytes (IPv6 minimum MTU), as a simple solution for now
to avoid MTU issues while forwarding.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2023-11-14 08:16:34 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
cfa55c6d47 batman-adv: Drop publication years from copyright info
The batman-adv source code was using the year of publication (to net-next)
as "last" year for the copyright statement. The whole source code mentioned
in the MAINTAINERS "BATMAN ADVANCED" section was handled as a single entity
regarding the publishing year.

This avoided having outdated (in sense of year information - not copyright
holder) publishing information inside several files. But since the simple
"update copyright year" commit (without other changes) in the file was not
well received in the upstream kernel, the option to not have a copyright
year (for initial and last publication) in the files are chosen instead.
More detailed information about the years can still be retrieved from the
SCM system.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Acked-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2021-02-06 09:22:10 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
aff6f5a68b batman-adv: Drop deprecated debugfs support
The debugfs support in batman-adv was marked as deprecated by the commit
00caf6a2b3 ("batman-adv: Mark debugfs functionality as deprecated") and
scheduled for removal in 2021.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2020-12-04 08:40:52 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
76e9f27628 batman-adv: Drop deprecated sysfs support
The sysfs in batman-adv support was marked as deprecated by the commit
42cdd52148 ("batman-adv: ABI: Mark sysfs files as deprecated") and
scheduled for removal in 2021.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2020-12-04 08:40:52 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
68e039f966 batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2020
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2020-01-01 00:00:33 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
0fa4c30d71 batman-adv: Make sysfs support optional
The sysfs files will be marked as deprecated in the near future. They are
already replaced by the batadv generic netlink family. Add an Kconfig
option to disable the sysfs support for users who want to test their tools
or want to safe some space. This setting should currently still be enabled
by default to keep backward compatible with legacy tools.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2019-03-25 10:01:11 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
0d5f20c42b batman-adv: Drop license boilerplate
All files got a SPDX-License-Identifier with commit 7db7d9f369
("batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header"). All the
required information about the license conditions can be found in
LICENSES/.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2019-03-25 09:31:35 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
7a79d717e0 batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2019
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2019-01-04 11:04:24 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
d331a73994 batman-adv: Provide debug messages as trace events
A private debug logging infrastructure is currently provided via
$debug_fs/batman_adv/*/log when CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG is enabled. This is
not well integrated in the rest of the tracing infrastructure of the
kernel.

Other components (like mac80211 or ath10k) allow to gather the debug
messages using generic trace events which are better integrated. This makes
it possible to interact with them using the existing userspace tools.

The tracepoint batadv:batadv_dbg will now be available when
CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG and CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_TRACING is activated. The log
level mask is still used for filtering as usual.

A full system trace for offline parsing can be created (and read) using:

  $ batctl ll all
  $ trace-cmd record -e batadv:batadv_dbg
  $ trace-cmd report

The same can also be done without recording to a file

  $ batctl ll all
  $ trace-cmd stream -e batadv:batadv_dbg

The trace infrastructure is especially helpful when tracing processes:

  $ batctl ll all
  $ ./tools/perf/perf trace --event "batadv:*" batctl p 10.204.32.1
     0.000 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 Parsing outgoing ARP REQUEST
     0.045 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 ARP MSG = [src: a2:64:14:53:f8:22-10.204.32.185 dst: 00:00:00:00:00:00-10.204.32.1]
     0.067 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 Entry updated: 10.204.32.185 a2:64:14:53:f8:22 (vid: -1)
     0.099 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 batadv_dat_select_candidates(): IP=10.204.32.1 hash(IP)=48902
     0.757 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 0: selected fe:2c:91:68:29:2b addr=48977 dist=65460
     1.178 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 1: selected fe:81:ab:c5:e3:03 addr=49181 dist=65256
     1.809 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 dat_select_candidates() 2: selected 66:25:a7:48:37:fb addr=49328 dist=65109
     1.828 batadv:batadv_dbg:batman_adv bat0 DHT_SEND for 10.204.32.1

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2018-09-15 09:51:08 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
6b1aea8cf2 batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2018
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2018-02-26 17:57:39 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
7db7d9f369 batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header
The "Linux kernel licensing rules" require that each file has a SPDX
license identifier as first line (and sometimes as second line).

The FSFE REUSE practices [1] would also require the same tags but have no
restrictions on the placement in the source file. Using the "Linux kernel
licensing rules" is therefore also fulfilling the FSFE REUSE practices
requirements at the same time.

[1] https://reuse.software/practices/

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2017-12-15 17:22:45 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
ac79cbb96b batman-adv: update copyright years for 2017
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2017-01-26 08:34:19 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
dc1cbd145e batman-adv: Allow to disable debugfs support
The files provided by batman-adv via debugfs are currently converted to
netlink. Tools which are not yet converted to use the netlink interface may
still rely on the old debugfs files. But systems which already upgraded
their tools can save some space by disabling this feature. The default
configuration of batman-adv on amd64 can reduce the size of the module by
around 11% when this feature is disabled.

    $ size net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko*
       text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
     150507   10395    4160  165062   284c6 net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.y
     137106    7099    2112  146317   23b8d net/batman-adv/batman-adv.ko.n

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-08-09 07:54:54 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
33a3bb4a33 batman-adv: throughput meter implementation
The throughput meter module is a simple, kernel-space replacement for
throughtput measurements tool like iperf and netperf. It is intended to
approximate TCP behaviour.

It is invoked through batctl: the protocol is connection oriented, with
cumulative acknowledgment and a dynamic-size sliding window.

The test *can* be interrupted by batctl. A receiver side timeout avoids
unlimited waitings for sender packets: after one second of inactivity, the
receiver abort the ongoing test.

Based on a prototype from Edo Monticelli <montik@autistici.org>

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio.quartulli@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-07-04 12:37:18 +02:00
Matthias Schiffer
09748a22f4 batman-adv: add generic netlink family for batman-adv
debugfs is currently severely broken virtually everywhere in the kernel
where files are dynamically added and removed (see
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.1/02196.html for some
details). In addition to that, debugfs is not namespace-aware.

Instead of adding new debugfs entries, the whole infrastructure should be
moved to netlink. This will fix the long standing problem of large buffers
for debug tables and hard to parse text files.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
[sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com: Strip down patch to only add genl family,
add missing kerneldoc]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-07-04 12:37:17 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
ba412080fb batman-adv: Consolidate logging related functions
There are several places in batman-adv which provide logging related
functions. These should be grouped together in the log.* files to make them
easier to find.

Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30 10:29:43 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
01d350d147 batman-adv: move bat_algo functions into a separate file
The bat_algo functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the
content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~15%, 103
lines). Moving it to a separate file makes it better visible as a main
component of the batman-adv implementation and hides it less in the other
helper functions in main.c.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30 10:29:43 +02:00
Markus Pargmann
1f8dce4992 batman-adv: split tvlv into a separate file
The tvlv functionality in main.c is mostly unrelated to the rest of the
content. It still takes up a large portion of this source file (~45%, 588
lines). Moving it to a separate file makes it better visible as a main
component of the batman-adv implementation and hides it less in the other
helper functions in main.c

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
[sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version, fix includes,
rewrote commit message]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30 10:29:43 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
0da0035942 batman-adv: OGMv2 - add basic infrastructure
This is the initial implementation of the new OGM protocol
(version 2). It has been designed to work on top of the
newly added ELP.

In the previous version the OGM protocol was used to both
measure link qualities and flood the network with the metric
information. In this version the protocol is in charge of
the latter task only, leaving the former to ELP.

This means being able to decouple the interval used by the
neighbor discovery from the OGM broadcasting, which revealed
to be costly in dense networks and needed to be relaxed so
leading to a less responsive routing protocol.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2016-02-29 16:05:31 +08:00
Linus Luessing
d6f94d91f7 batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructure
The B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol originally only used a single
message type (called OGM) to determine the link qualities to
the direct neighbors and spreading these link quality
information through the whole mesh. This procedure is
summarized on the BATMAN concept page and explained in
details in the RFC draft published in 2008.

This approach was chosen for its simplicity during the
protocol design phase and the implementation. However, it
also bears some drawbacks:

 *  Wireless interfaces usually come with some packet loss,
    therefore a higher broadcast rate is desirable to allow
    a fast reaction on flaky connections.
    Other interfaces of the same host might be connected to
    Ethernet LANs / VPNs / etc which rarely exhibit packet
    loss would benefit from a lower broadcast rate to reduce
    overhead.
 *  It generally is more desirable to detect local link
    quality changes at a faster rate than propagating all
    these changes through the entire mesh (the far end of
    the mesh does not need to care about local link quality
    changes that much). Other optimizations strategies, like
    reducing overhead, might be possible if OGMs weren't
    used for all tasks in the mesh at the same time.

As a result detecting local link qualities shall be handled
by an independent message type, ELP, whereas the OGM message
type remains responsible for flooding the mesh with these
link quality information and determining the overall path
transmit qualities.

Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in
Ascom (Switzerland) AG.

Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
2016-02-29 16:05:29 +08:00
Sven Eckelmann
0046b0402a batman-adv: update copyright years for 2016
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02 12:55:10 +08:00
Markus Pargmann
9fc1883ef2 batman-adv: Makefile, Sort alphabetically
The whole Makefile is sorted, just the multicast rule is not at the
right position.

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-05-29 10:13:36 +02:00
Markus Pargmann
9bb218828c batman-adv: debugfs, avoid compiling for !DEBUG_FS
Normally the debugfs framework will return error pointer with -ENODEV
for function calls when DEBUG_FS is not set.

batman does not notice this error code and continues trying to create
debugfs files and executes more code. We can avoid this code execution
by disabling compiling debugfs.c when DEBUG_FS is not set.

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-05-29 10:13:35 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
9f6446c7f9 batman-adv: update copyright years for 2015
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-05-29 10:13:35 +02:00
Linus Lüssing
c5caf4ef34 batman-adv: Multicast Listener Announcements via Translation Table
With this patch a node which has no bridge interface on top of its soft
interface announces its local multicast listeners via the translation
table.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-03-22 09:18:56 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
e19f9759ed batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:19 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
ebf38fb7ab batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimer
As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the
FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in
its documentation.

In this way it is easier to update it in case of future
changes.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:39 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
610bfc6bc9 batman-adv: Receive fragmented packets and merge
Fragments arriving at their destination are buffered for later merge.
Merged packets are passed to the main receive function as had they never
been fragmented.

Fragments are forwarded without merging if the MTU of the outgoing
interface is smaller than the size of the merged packet.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 11:58:34 +02:00
Martin Hundebøll
f097e25dbe batman-adv: Remove old fragmentation code
Remove the existing fragmentation code before adding the new version
and delete unicast.{h,c}.

batadv_unicast_send_skb() is moved to send.c and renamed to
batadv_send_skb_unicast().

fragmentation entry in sysfs (bat_priv->fragmentation) is kept for use in
the new fragmentation code.

BATADV_UNICAST_FRAG packet type is renamed to BATADV_FRAG for use in the
new fragmentation code.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 11:58:33 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
9f4980e68b batman-adv: remove vis functionality
This is replaced by a userspace program, we don't need this
functionality to bloat the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:32 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
24a5deeb8a batman-adv: move ring_buffer helper functions in bat_iv_ogm
the two lonely ring_buffer helper functions are used by the
bat_iv_ogm module only and therefore they can be moved
inside it.

Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-05-29 02:44:54 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
9cb812c54e batman-adv: update Makefile copyright years
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:29:54 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
d353d8d4d9 batman-adv: network coding - add the initial infrastructure code
Network coding exploits the 802.11 shared medium to allow multiple
packets to be sent in a single transmission. In brief, a relay can XOR
two packets, and send the coded packet to two destinations. The
receivers can decode one of the original packets by XOR'ing the coded
packet with the other original packet. This will lead to increased
throughput in topologies where two packets cross one relay.

In a simple topology with three nodes, it takes four transmissions
without network coding to get one packet from Node A to Node B and one
from Node B to Node A:

 1.  Node A  ---- p1 --->  Node R                Node B
 2.  Node A                Node R  <--- p2 ----  Node B
 3.  Node A  <--- p2 ----  Node R                Node B
 4.  Node A                Node R  ---- p1 --->  Node B

With network coding, the relay only needs one transmission, which saves
us one slot of valuable airtime:

 1.  Node A  ---- p1 --->  Node R                Node B
 2.  Node A                Node R  <--- p2 ----  Node B
 3.  Node A  <- p1 x p2 -  Node R  - p1 x p2 ->  Node B

The same principle holds for a topology including five nodes. Here the
packets from Node A and Node B are overheard by Node C and Node D,
respectively. This allows Node R to send a network coded packet to save
one transmission:

   Node A                  Node B

    |     \              /    |
    |      p1          p2     |
    |       \          /      |
    p1       > Node R <       p2
    |                         |
    |         /      \        |
    |    p1 x p2    p1 x p2   |
    v       /          \      v
           /            \
   Node C <              > Node D

More information is available on the open-mesh.org wiki[1].

This patch adds the initial code to support network coding in
batman-adv. It sets up a worker thread to do house keeping and adds a
sysfs file to enable/disable network coding. The feature is disabled by
default, as it requires a wifi-driver with working promiscuous mode, and
also because it adds a small delay at each hop.

[1] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Catwoman

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:48 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
1722447482 batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add compile option
This patch makes it possible to decide whether to include DAT within the
batman-adv binary or not.
It is extremely useful when the user wants to reduce the size of the resulting
module by cutting off any not needed feature.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07 20:00:22 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
785ea11441 batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - create DHT helper functions
Add all the relevant functions in order to manage a Distributed Hash Table over
the B.A.T.M.A.N.-adv network. It will later be used to store several ARP entries
and implement DAT (Distributed ARP Table)

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07 20:00:19 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
b706b13b6c batman-adv: Remove bat_ prefix from bat_{debugfs, sysfs}.{c, h}
The "bat_" prefix in the source files implementing the batman-adv sysfs and
debugfs interface doesn't have a special meaning and are only used by these
files and files that implement the actual B.A.T.M.A.N. path finding algorithm.

The prefix is better suited to mark files that are used to implement the main
part of the path finding. All other files should not use it and therefore gets
renamed.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:22 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
7a5cc24277 batman-adv: add bridge loop avoidance compile option
The define CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_BLA switches the bridge loop avoidance
on - skip it, and the bridge loop avoidance is not compiled in.

This is useful if binary size should be saved or the feature is
not needed.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-04-11 14:29:00 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
23721387c4 batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance code
This second version of the bridge loop avoidance for batman-adv
avoids loops between the mesh and a backbone (usually a LAN).

By connecting multiple batman-adv mesh nodes to the same ethernet
segment a loop can be created when the soft-interface is bridged
into that ethernet segment. A simple visualization of the loop
involving the most common case - a LAN as ethernet segment:

node1  <-- LAN  -->  node2
  |                   |
wifi   <-- mesh -->  wifi

Packets from the LAN (e.g. ARP broadcasts) will circle forever from
node1 or node2 over the mesh back into the LAN.

With this patch, batman recognizes backbone gateways, nodes which are
part of the mesh and backbone/LAN at the same time. Each backbone
gateway "claims" clients from within the mesh to handle them
exclusively. By restricting that only responsible backbone gateways
may handle their claimed clients traffic, loops are effectively
avoided.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-04-11 14:28:58 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
567db7b0b7 batman-adv: Update copyright years
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2012-02-17 02:50:21 +08:00
Marek Lindner
b9dacc521f batman-adv: agglomerate all batman iv ogm sending functions in the batman iv file
In the process the batman iv OGM aggregation code could be merged
into the batman iv code base which makes the separate aggregation
files superfluous.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-09-08 17:44:41 +02:00
Marek Lindner
fc95727564 batman-adv: agglomerate all batman iv ogm processing functions in a single file
In preparation of the upcoming improved routing algorithm the code based has
to be re-organized to allow choosing the routing algorithm at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-09-08 17:39:06 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
64afe35398 batman-adv: Update copyright years
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31 14:57:12 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
c6c8fea297 net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing
protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or
wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space
tools.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-16 13:44:24 -08:00