From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
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.] Linux bridge-code for something like BATMAN
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:22:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106152122.30123.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DF90276.8050701@aon.at>
Hi,
> I know bridging is not routing but I was thinking since some time if it
> is possible to modify the linux bridge-code for forwarding layer2
> packets according to the rules of some routing algorithm. This means the
> bridge would not learn mac addresses from ARP protocol any longer but
> from a daemon. The result would be a layer2 mesh routing like BATMAN does.
if you want something like BATMAN why not simply using BATMAN ? Or you are
trying to understand the difference between standard bridging and BATMAN ?
Regards,
Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-15 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-15 19:05 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Linux bridge-code for something like BATMAN fboehm
2011-06-15 19:22 ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2011-06-15 19:28 ` fboehm
2011-06-15 20:23 ` Marek Lindner
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