Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Mesh with access from wifi and lan. Which is the Only True Way?

[Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>]

On Tuesday 28 September 2010 21:08:53 Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> But with three nodes in a linear topology user-A-B-C, the reject 
> firewall chain (basically the FORWARD chain) eats up the packets user->A
> This is the same rule which rejects batman packets A->C which go through 
> B, and there are the gate interface which I do not understand, so while 
> the following rules seem to solve the problem at least for three nodes, 
> I have a feeling that I am not on the right path, and maybe on a way to 
> cause packet storms.
> iptables -A forwarding_rule -d 10.42.0.0/24 ! -s 10.42.0.0/24 -i ath0 -o 
> ath0 -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A forwarding_rule -s 10.42.0.0/24 ! -d 10.42.0.0/24 -o ath0 -i 
> ath0 -j ACCEPT

Could you explain what kind of traffic you actually want to block ? I also don't 
understand what packet storm you are afraid of.

Regards,
Marek