Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] A case for batman-11s

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:36:14AM +0800, Yeoh Chun-Yeow wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> Although batman-adv is a layer 2 routing that works across multiple access
> technologies (not so sure about other technologies, because it mainly use
> for WiFi), but it only make senses if we configure the wireless interface
> operating in adhoc or adhocdemo mode. If we configure the wireless interface
> as Infrastructure mode, all the traffic will go to the AP first, even if we
> can direct communicate between the two STAs.
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong.

Ideally, you have BATMAN on the AP as well as the STA. So you never do
STA->AP->STA hops between BATMAN nodes, you only do a STA->AP BATMAN
hop followed by a AP->STA BATMAN hop. Performing two BATMAN hops means
BATMAN knows the transmit quality of each of the two wireless hop, not
the combined transmit quality of the STA->AP->STA path. So BATMAN
running on the AP can then decide if it makes sense to take a
different path.

There is code to enforce this, i.e. blocking STA->AP->STA transfers,
in the development tree and it has been push upstream to be included
in the mainline kernel.

	 Andrew