From: NicoEchániz <nicoechaniz@altermundi.net>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Cc: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv: ap mode with isolation enabled
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:54:33 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50781309.3020608@altermundi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5077EE5F.8030601@yahoo.de>
On 10/12/12 07:18, Marek Lindner wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I understand that, thus the use of quotes, but i'll try to find
more appropriate wording; it's the human administrator watching
originator tables that actually gets confused ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-12 12:54 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
2012-10-12 12:54 ` NicoEchániz [this message]
2012-10-12 12:54 ` NicoEchániz
2012-10-12 13:04 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-10-13 10:27 ` NicoEchániz
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