Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] Implementation of a Stateless Multicast Packet Type

[Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>]

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On Thursday, 20 July 2023 06:35:52 CEST Linus Lüssing wrote:
[...]
> The purpose of this new packet type is to allow to forward an IP
> multicast packet with less transmissions / overhead than the 
> multicast-via-multiple-unicasts approach. Or to reach a lot more
> destinations (currently up to 196, depending on the payload size, see 
> Wiki documentation for details) than with the default multicast fanout
> for the via-unicasts approach.

Please don't forget that batctl's tcpdump+wireshark also requires support 
for parsing it. Most likely, this was not added yet to not confuse third 
parties in case the packet format changes.


I have now acked the various patches and have queued them up for submission to 
net-next. But it would be good when Simon also checks them.

And we must also first release 2023.2 (including submission for net +
net-next) before these patches can be added to the batman-adv repository.

Kind regards,
	Sven

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