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

Sven Eckelmann
2010-07-10T09:09:44Z

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Henning Rogge wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I know that it must be part of the routing framework - just the ruleset
he explained is not sufficient for that task.

Kind regards,
Sven

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