From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 10:10:28 +0100 From: Antonio Quartulli Message-ID: <20111101091027.GA20215@ritirata.org> References: <1319964962-5092-1-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org> <4EAEEE96.9040808@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EAEEE96.9040808@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 0/6] DAT: Distributed ARP Table Reply-To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Id: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:53:10 -0700, Gus Wirth wrote: > On 10/30/2011 01:55 AM, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > > Hello people, > > as most of you may already know, last summer I've been working on the > > B.A.T.M.A.N.-Adv GSoC project named "DAT: Distributed ARP Table". For who wants > > to get deeper into the details of the project there are two links: > > - The GSoC proposal [1] > > - The DAT wikipage on open-mesh.org [2], with status and ideas description > > > > Just to recap: DAT is a distributes hash table meant to store ARP entries for > > fast lookup. In a normal scenario, whenever a node wants to communicate with > > another one, it first needs to issue a broadcast ARP request in order to > > retrieve its PHY/MAC address. In a sparse network a broadcast message could be > > lost several times before reaching the real destination so creating high > > latencies. With DAT, every ARP entries (a pair [IP addr, MAC addr]) is stored on > > a "computed" set of nodes, therefore in case of ARP request theses nodes can > > directly be contacted (in unicast) and the needed information can be quickly > > fetched. > > > > Cheers, > > Antonio > > > > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/ordex/4001 > > [2] http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/DAT > > The link to the Wiki page doesn't work. > > The actual link: > > http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/DistributedArpTable > > Except there is no information there :( > Sorry for this, yesterday evening I was restructuring the documentation and I moved [1] to [2] (I had in mind to write an email about this, but it was late..) Later, [3] will become the official documenting page of DAT (W.I.P. now). [1] http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/DAT [2] http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/GSOC2011_DAT [3] http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/DistributedArpTable Cheers, -- Antonio Quartulli ..each of us alone is worth nothing.. Ernesto "Che" Guevara