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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] BATMAN routing (via gate0)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:35:05 +0800
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On Sunday 23 November 2008 00:20:55 Derek C wrote:
> I see that BATMAN makes a tunnel to the gateway and then routes traffic
> via the 169.254 gate0 subnet
>
> Does this mean that all outgoing from the node should be NATed?  or is it
> possible for the upstream node(s) to ping the node via its true IP address
> (5.255.XXX.XXX) ?

The tunnel is used for internet traffic only. Within the mesh you can use the 
mesh ip addresses.

Regards,
Marek