Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Staging: batman-adv for 2.6.36 (3)

Henning Rogge
2010-07-10T08:54:41Z

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Am Samstag 10 Juli 2010, 10:40:52 schrieb Sven Eckelmann:
> Daniel Seither wrote:
> > Am 10.07.2010 01:07, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> > > batman-adv works quite well for us - but that doesn't mean that it is
> > > good in context of the current kernel development. And who should know
> > > it better than the netdev guys.
> >
> > Hagen Paul Pfeifer suggested in his message "a generalized architecture
> > and a user space implementation of the protocol". What came to my mind
> > when I read this again was a division of control plane and
> > data/forwarding plane as known from traditional routing.
> >
> > The whole forwarding stuff would stay in the kernel, using a simple
> > routing table (for destination X, send to node Y on interface Z).
>
> This would go against the bonding/alternating functionality.
The bonding/alternating functionality could be part of the routing framework.
I think there is something similar on IP layer routing in linux.

(a framework like this would make it very easy to port additional routing
daemons for layer 2 routing, I already hear the 802.11s group crying because
of competitors ;) ).

Henning Rogge

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