public inbox for b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv gateway support
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:50:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001051750.37976.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100105063146.GE9585@lunn.ch>

On Tuesday 05 January 2010 14:31:46 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Can this be made a bit more robust? An easy DoS would be to offer to
> be a gateway, but not run DHCP. All my near neighbours then fail to
> get an IP address and i have quiet network with more bandwidth for
> myself.

Good point. Before I had another scheme in mind: DHCP requests are broadcasted 
but the batman-adv client would filter the responses preferring the selected 
gateway if its reply is available. Of course, that is more complex to 
implement.


> Could we inspect the DHCP packet a bit more deeply, look for DHCP
> discovery packets, unicast 3 in 4 to the best gateway, broadcast 1 in
> 4 as a fallback.

I'm not sure this approach is feasible. As soon as we broadcast a single 
packet we might end up with a badly chosen gateway.

The batman daemon is able to blacklist broken gateways and switches to another 
one. We may want to do the same.

Regards,
Marek

      reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-04 15:44 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv gateway support Marek Lindner
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 [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=201001051750.37976.lindner_marek@yahoo.de \
    --to=lindner_marek@yahoo.de \
    --cc=b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.net \
    --cc=b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox