From: "Martin Hundebøll" <martin@hundeboll.net>
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.] [PATCHv2] batman-adv: fix visualization output without neighbors on the primary interface
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 18:10:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAA970F.7080901@hundeboll.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHD-aqKEcv0F7ZKL1xsXOj8k1ZvRM1YXvOYKadj44SUBPpff4g@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Guido,
On 05/08/2012 10:52 PM, Guido Iribarren wrote:
> mDNS solutions like avahi translate between hostnames and ips, while
> batman visualization deals with MACs, and those cannot necessarily be
> obtained from IPs (in some cases, ARP will help, but won't work in
> interfaces without IPs)
>
> maybe i'm ignoring some MAC discovery protocol?
While reading about TLV's on wikipedia[1], I came across a MAC discovery protocol[2], LLDP, which eventually lead me to OpenLLDP[3]. If this also works on 802.11, I think we have a winner :)
Happy hacking!
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-length-value
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Layer_Discovery_Protocol
[3] http://openlldp.sourceforge.net/
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Kind Regards
Martin Hundebøll
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-09 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-05 15:05 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: fix visualization output without neighbors on the primary interface Matthias Schiffer
2012-05-05 15:29 ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-05-05 15:49 ` Matthias Schiffer
2012-05-05 15:51 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2] " Matthias Schiffer
2012-05-06 20:14 ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-05-07 4:35 ` Matthias Schiffer
2012-05-07 6:40 ` Marek Lindner
2012-05-07 11:10 ` Matthias Schiffer
2012-05-07 11:28 ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-05-08 6:04 ` Marek Lindner
2012-05-08 12:51 ` Matthias Schiffer
2012-05-08 20:52 ` Guido Iribarren
2012-05-09 11:33 ` Marek Lindner
2012-05-09 16:10 ` Martin Hundebøll [this message]
2012-05-10 19:47 ` Matthias Schiffer
2012-05-10 20:19 ` Marek Lindner
2012-05-10 20:46 ` Matthias Schiffer
2012-05-07 6:43 ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-05-07 6:43 ` Marek Lindner
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