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.] batman-adv: ap mode with isolation enabled
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:18:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5077EE5F.8030601@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121012071559.GB2564@ritirata.org>
On 10/12/2012 03:15 PM, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> The behaviour is correct: OGMs are broadcast packets. In infrastructure mode,
> whatever broadcast packet a station sends gets to the AP which will re-broadcast
> it again. In this way every station gets it and from the batman-adv point of
> view it is like the packet was received directly from the other sta (the MAC
> addresses in the packet say so). Therefore you must enable ap-isolation in
> hostapd if you want batman-adv to behave as you expect.
I'd like to stress the point that batman-adv is not "confused" as you
describe it in your blog post. Antonio explained it already: In
infrastructure mode all station _are_ neighbors.
Cheers,
Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-12 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-12 4:13 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv: ap mode with isolation enabled Nicolás Echániz
2012-10-12 4:29 ` Marek Lindner
2012-10-12 5:15 ` NicoEchániz
2012-10-12 7:15 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-10-12 10:18 ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2012-10-12 12:54 ` NicoEchániz
2012-10-12 12:54 ` NicoEchániz
2012-10-12 13:04 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-10-13 10:27 ` NicoEchániz
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