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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:22:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batman-adv hna balancing
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Hi,

> Here you can see our topology, there is two nodes at moment they are
> connected to the same switch and should see same hnas but they are
> announced mostly by one of the two
> http://eigenlab.org/batman-adv_status.php
> 
> If i turn off the cc:c8 node the hna pass to the other nodes but when
> i turn it on all hna pass on it
> 
> Why this? Is not better to balance hna announcing?

the 2 batman-adv nodes probably detected they are connected to the same switch 
and activated the bridge loop avoidance [1]. With 'batctl sn' you can retrieve 
the bridge loop neighbor list.

Regards,
Marek


[1] http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/Bridge-loop-avoidance