Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: Adding netfilter-bridge hooks

[Antonio Quartulli <ordex@ritirata.org>]

On ven, mag 21, 2010 at 12:17:28 +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> >
> >I gave a try to this patch, but I see something strange.
> >After enabling a simple ebtables rule:
> >ebtables -A INPUT -s MAC -j DROP
> >and
> >ebtables -A FORWARD -s MAC -j DROP (to be sure..)
> >
> >I saw that batman ping was timing out, while the "originator list" (shown
> >with batctl o) is still filled with the other node entry...
> 
> Hi Antonio,
> 
> thanks for trying the patch! In my case, it worked, I tried it with
> ebtables -I INPUT -s MAC -j DROP or
> ebtables -I INPUT -p 0x4305 -j DROP
> (and the same for -I OUTPUT)
> 
> batctl td reported, that it's not receiving any batman packets anymore and also
> the originator table was empty after a couple of minutes.
> 
> Hmm, and also that batping is timing out for you seems to indicate that it should work
> on your side. Could you check with batctl td too? How long have you been waiting for
> the originator table to clear? (dead nodes are not being cleared immediately in batman,
> as they don't harm the routing decisions and we still need the last measurements in case they
> might get alive again)
> 
> Cheers, Linus

Hi Linus,
	I thought that the dead node should be pushed away after a
while, not 3 minutes. So that was my mistake...indeed everything was working correctly!

I tried it again five minutes ago, and everything went as I expected!

Thanks very much!

Regards

P.S. batctl td was not so usefull since I have to point it to wlan0..and
obviously I can see all the packets there.

-- 
Antonio Quartulli

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