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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: Jonathan Haws <jhaws@sdl.usu.edu>
Cc: "guohuizou2000@sina.com" <guohuizou2000@sina.com>,
	"b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org"
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] alfred and batadv-vis issue
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:29:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2008119.62L72lsrl6@bentobox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e287b33a075cd802539d75d95319805eee0010ea.camel@sdl.usu.edu>

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On Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2018 04:04:42 CEST Jonathan Haws wrote:
[...]
> > I have a doubt for the issue.
> > Alfred should send the info by multicast packets. So the packet's dst
> > mac address should be multicast mac address.
> > The packet with multicast mac address should be received by all group
> > member, isn't it?
> > Why does the mesh point need peer's mac address for sending the info?
> 
> The rest of the devs may be able to answer better, but I believe it is
> how alfred does its data storage and mapping of the source.

Correct, alfred is storing the data from each server using its mac address. It 
is also looking up the TQ of master servers via the mac address. And the mac 
address is expected to be extractable from the EUI64 based link-local IPv6
address.

And of course, Jonathan's IPv4 implementation must get the mac address using 
different methods. It is using the function ipv4_arp_request to get the 
information from IPv4 neighbor table. And it looks like his implementation is 
missing a reliable way to fill this neighbor table.

Kind regards,
	Sven

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-23  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-18  5:53 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] alfred and batadv-vis issue gary
2018-10-18  6:22 ` Sven Eckelmann
2018-10-22 17:36   ` Jonathan Haws
2018-10-23  3:02     ` gary
2018-10-23  4:04       ` Jonathan Haws
2018-10-23  6:29         ` Sven Eckelmann [this message]
2018-10-23  9:52           ` gary
2018-10-23 10:25             ` Sven Eckelmann
2018-10-23 13:50           ` Jonathan Haws
2018-10-23 14:06             ` Sven Eckelmann
2018-10-23 14:11               ` Jonathan Haws
2018-10-23 14:16                 ` Sven Eckelmann
2018-10-24 18:39                   ` Jonathan Haws
2018-10-25  6:15                     ` Sven Eckelmann
2018-10-25  9:06                       ` gary
2018-10-29 16:07                         ` Jonathan Haws
2018-10-29 16:48                           ` Sven Eckelmann
2018-10-29 17:25                             ` Jonathan Haws
2018-10-29 17:34                               ` Sven Eckelmann
2018-10-30  5:24                           ` gary
2018-10-30 14:20                             ` Jonathan Haws
2018-10-30 14:27                               ` Sven Eckelmann
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2018-10-25 13:40 Jonathan Haws

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