Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batman advanced and internet gateways

[Antonio Quartulli <ordex@ritirata.org>]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 02:33:53PM +0200, Clemens John wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 07 Juli 2010, 14:10:33 schrieb Marek Lindner:
> > On Wednesday, July 07, 2010 13:25:51 Clemens John wrote:
> > > Right and the wifi clients have no batman advanced installed. Currently
> > > they are getting their IP and defaultroute from a central dhcp server
> > 
> > Wow - when it comes to your setup and requirements you know how to keep
> > your answer short. I hoped you would say a bit more ... :)
> > 
> > At this point I don't see why you would need to use the gateway feature at
> > all. There is nothing to optimize.
> 
> Yes the network is working well but in this setup the central dhcp server is 
> the only gateway because I only get the defaultroute of this server.
> 
> What if I have more gateways? I know that I can set the defaultroute to this 
> server by hand but a "normal" user can´t do this. I need a method to choose 
> the gateway individually and automatically so that the user gets the best 
> gateway available.
> 
> Are there any ideas to do this? Or am I completely on the wrong way?
> 

If I'm not wrong, at this point you could put a dhcp server on each
gateway and use the gw-mode feature of batman, so that each gw will
anounce itself as gw and a dhcp request, becoming from a client, will be
redirected to the best gw in the mesh.


Please someone corrects me if I am wrong.

> Thank you
> Clemens

Regards


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