Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv on different archs

Marek Lindner
2010-01-20T09:42:50Z

On Wednesday 20 January 2010 17:29:04 Juha Ylönen wrote:
> Could be the first one in the list as brctl fails. CONFIG_BRIDGE is not
> configured in the device kernel. Is batman-adv dependent on this? I'll
> recompile the kernel and see what happens (it's a slow process), in the
> meanwhile, what other kernel configurations are needed for batman-adv?

No, it is not required but bridging is the best way to connect batman-adv with
non-mesh participants, therefore many people use bridging. It is easy to add
the wrong interface to the wrong bridge and then strange things happen which
is way it is on my checklist. ;)

Regards,
Marek