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From: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 3/7] batman-adv: prevent duplication of ARP replies when DAT is used
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:07:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2403718.s2TxdbNBZZ@prime> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456492719-29748-1-git-send-email-apape@phoenixcontact.com>

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On Friday 26 February 2016 14:18:39 Andreas Pape wrote:
> If none of the backbone gateways in a bla setup has already knowledge of
> the mac address searched for in an incoming ARP request from the backbone
> it must be prevented that multiple ARP replies are generated and returned
> to the backbone by the dat address resolution mechanism of other dat
> enabled nodes of the mesh.

Isn't this patch somewhat redundant due to the change in patch 4? In that 
patch we already drop unicast packets, and this patch just adds a check for a 
more specific unicast subtype ...?

Thanks,
     Simon

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-10 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-26 13:18 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 3/7] batman-adv: prevent duplication of ARP replies when DAT is used Andreas Pape
2016-02-26 16:03 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-10 15:07 ` Simon Wunderlich [this message]

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