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From: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: introduce 'no_rebroadcast' option
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:03:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1680806.MqrY0WE4J8@diderot> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130924145723.GN18530@Linus-Debian>

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On Tuesday 24 September 2013 16:57:24 Linus Lüssing wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 03:46:50PM +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 03:40:33PM +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> > > 
> > >
> > > Using this option wrongly will break your mesh network, use this option
> > > wisely and at your own risk!
> >
> > 
> >
> > Exactly for this reason (As we discussed on IRC) I think this mechanism
> > should be reasoned a bit more.
> 
> Hm, my personal reason to want such a feature is included, the VPN
> example. And since I know that using batman-adv over VPNs is not
> uncommon, I'd love to have this feature upstream.

Admittedly, I haven't followed the entire discussion but what speaks against 
setting the rebroadcast count define for non-wireless to 0 ? Matthias (if I am 
not mistaken) provided a patch for the wireless / non-wireless distinction not 
too long ago. 
Seems way easier as we are looking for a quick and temporary solution ?

Cheers,
Marek

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-25 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-24 13:40 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: introduce 'no_rebroadcast' option Linus Lüssing
2013-09-24 13:46 ` Antonio Quartulli
2013-09-24 14:57   ` Linus Lüssing
2013-09-25 15:03     ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2013-10-20  9:21       ` Linus Lüssing

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