Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: send every DHCP packet as bat-unicast

[Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>]

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On Tuesday 05 November 2013 19:31:08 Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
> 
> In different situations it is possible that the DHCP server
> or client uses broadcast Ethernet frames to send messages
> to each other. The GW component in batman-adv takes care of
> using bat-unicast packets to bring broadcast DHCP
> Discover/Requests to the "best" server.
> 
> On the way back the DHCP server usually sends unicasts,
> but upon client request it may decide to use broadcasts as
> well.
> 
> This patch improves the GW component so that it now snoops
> and sends as unicast all the DHCP packets, no matter if they
> were generated by a DHCP server or client.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
> ---
>  distributed-arp-table.c |   4 +-
>  gateway_client.c        | 171
> +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> gateway_client.h        |   4 +-
>  send.c                  |  16 ++++-
>  send.h                  |  10 +--
>  soft-interface.c        |  76 +++++++++++----------
>  types.h                 |  12 ++++
>  7 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 140 deletions(-)

Applied in revision 2d5b555.

Thanks,
Marek

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