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.net>
Subject: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv gateway support
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:44:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001042344.02273.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
Hi,
batman-adv still lacks the well-known gateway functionality the batman daemon
offered since quite a while. Since batman-adv works sufficiently well without it
and due to the ongoing debate whether a layer 2 mesh protocol should interfere
with layer 3 this topic has been neglected for a while. In multi-gateway
environments proper gateway support is a must have. Therefore I hereby propose
a set of patches to add this functionality. Comments welcome!
What you get:
* The first patch will add gateway announce / handling support to the protocol.
You will have additional /proc files to switch gateway modes, get a list of
gateways in the network and see the currently selected best gateway.
* The second patch simply adds batctl support to conveniently configure the
gateway setup.
* The third patch checks whether locally received packets are DHCP queries and
forwards them via uncicast to the best gateway instead of broadcasting them.
Note:
* These patches change the routing protocol, therefore the compat version is
increased. This (intentionally) breaks interoperability with older batman-adv
versions!
* Only DHCP traffic gets redirected to the best gateway - no other traffic is
affected. This is part of the compromise we achieved during the last
discussions.
* IPv6 support is still missing but should be fairly easy to add. Any
volunteers ?
Regards,
Marek
next reply other threads:[~2010-01-04 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-04 15:44 Marek Lindner [this message]
2010-01-04 15:46 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/3] batman-adv: adding gateway functionality Marek Lindner
2010-01-04 15:46 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/3] batctl: add support for gateway mode Marek Lindner
2010-01-04 15:46 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 3/3] batman-adv: send DHCP requests directly to the chosen gw Marek Lindner
2010-01-05 6:43 ` Andrew Lunn
2010-01-05 10:00 ` Marek Lindner
2010-01-05 11:09 ` Andrew Lunn
2010-01-04 16:48 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv gateway support predrag balorda
2010-01-04 16:55 ` Sven Eckelmann
[not found] ` <de7865071001040856u1b661bdcxb319ffe60b2b367b@mail.gmail.com>
2010-01-04 17:02 ` Sven Eckelmann
2010-01-04 20:23 ` Donald Gordon
2010-01-04 20:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2010-01-04 21:20 ` Donald Gordon
2010-01-04 21:45 ` Linus Lüssing
2010-01-04 22:27 ` Donald Gordon
2010-01-05 6:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2010-01-05 9:50 ` Marek Lindner
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