From: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
To: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: introduce "noflood" broadcast flood prevention option
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 04:53:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190427025302.GL6201@otheros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190427023848.GK6201@otheros>
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 04:38:49AM +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> The desired behaviour in this case would be to let multicast packets pass
> unless they would be flooded. A firewall does not know which
> mechanism batman-adv would choose. Hence this option within
> batman-adv to create this desired behaviour.
Or in other words: I want to allow people to experiment with and use
multicast in a variety of undefined applications. But I don't want
them to break things for everyone else (which could happen with no
firewall rules, too many listeners and a broadcast flooding
fallback).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-27 2:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-26 17:12 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: introduce "noflood" broadcast flood prevention option Linus Lüssing
2019-04-26 21:56 ` Marek Lindner
2019-04-27 2:38 ` Linus Lüssing
2019-04-27 2:53 ` Linus Lüssing [this message]
2019-04-28 17:04 ` Sven Eckelmann
2019-04-28 19:04 ` Martin Weinelt
2019-04-30 16:01 ` Linus Lüssing
2019-04-30 16:07 ` Linus Lüssing
2019-05-02 6:40 ` Sven Eckelmann
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