[B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman gw nodes and routing (rv792)

Predrag Balorda
2007-11-11T22:30:11Z

This is my setup - I sincerely hope ascii-art holds up as it took some time
to create! :-)

gateway
Internet ---- 123.456.789.100 router1
10.0.0.1 --- 10.0.0.10 router2
router3
(ath0) 105.0.0.1 --batman-- 105.0.0.2 --batman--
105.0.0.3
(eth0) 10.0.1.0 10.0.2.0
10.0.3.0
(bat0) 169.254.0.0 --PtP-- 169.254.2.79
(bat0) 169.254.0.0 --------------PtP-----------
169.254.2.80

I have read the bmx pdf and it is excellent. Everything works as it should
on batman-exp rv792. But I have a problem. The guide assumes that your
gateway to the public internet is my 'router1' and it also assumes that you
have a firewall running on all those routers.

It also ends up with double-nat (well, actually triple-nat in my case). I
have gotten rid of one level of nat (on router1). But I'm still left with a
double nat.

Nat happens when default route traffic from batman nodes is sent down bat0
tunnel and then once again when my gateway passes it onto the public ip
space.

I have succeeded in creating a setup where no nat is done when client nodes
connect to 10.0.0.0/24 network (10.0.0.0/24 hna on router1) but if I want to
go out onto the internet I simply have to do

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o bat0 -j MASQUERADE

on each batman node, otherwise nodes themselves can get out but their eth0
clients cannot (i.e. from 10.0.2.0/24 or 10.0.3.0/24 - 10.0.1.0/24 doesn't
have this problem as it has a default route entry in the output of 'route' -
other batman nodes don't)

Can someone with a bit more experience in these matters give me a hand. I
will probably end up having to use batman on gateway node as well but I'd
rather have this possibility of a gw node not runnig batman.

Thanks again!

Pele