[B.A.T.M.A.N.] Disconnecting the nodes in batman-adv

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] Disconnecting the nodes in batman-adv

[Bouterse, Robert]

My attempts to use the hop_penalty failed, since I do not have control over the RF environment. So, I am resurrecting an old thread to find out if this is possible : https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2011-July/005058.html

The state of the thread seems to have ended with the idea of wrapping a wlan0 interface in a bridge, and then adding the bridge to a batman-adv network. This worked (apparently) with batman-adv over ethernet, but will not work over 802.11 because the kernel specifically prevents the bridge from being created, http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2010-January/020959.html

There is some mention that batman-adv has ebtables support.

 How can I get at that, to do what the people in the thread, were trying to accomplish?

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Bob Bouterse
Senior Software Engineer
Multimedia Development Center
D&M Holdings Inc.
http://www.dm-holdings.com

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Disconnecting the nodes in batman-adv

[Marek Lindner]

On Monday, January 23, 2012 22:55:09 Bouterse, Robert wrote:
> My attempts to use the hop_penalty failed, since I do not have control over
> the RF environment. So, I am resurrecting an old thread to find out if
> this is possible :
> https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2011-July/005058.html
> 
> The state of the thread seems to have ended with the idea of wrapping a
> wlan0 interface in a bridge, and then adding the bridge to a batman-adv
> network. This worked (apparently) with batman-adv over ethernet, but will
> not work over 802.11 because the kernel specifically prevents the bridge
> from being created,
> http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2010-January/020959.html
> 
> There is some mention that batman-adv has ebtables support.
> 
>  How can I get at that, to do what the people in the thread, were trying to
> accomplish?

It does not exist. The ebtables support has been removed shortly after its 
introduction because it came with some disadvantages. Unless you invest some 
time to implement something you won't have a solution.

Regards,
Marek

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Disconnecting the nodes in batman-adv

[Andre Courchesne]

Ok, disabling loop avoidance has no effect.

Has ap_isolation been tested in this type of scenario?

On 2012-01-26, at 2:36 PM, Marek Lindner wrote:

> On Monday, January 23, 2012 22:55:09 Bouterse, Robert wrote:
>> My attempts to use the hop_penalty failed, since I do not have control over
>> the RF environment. So, I am resurrecting an old thread to find out if
>> this is possible :
>> https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2011-July/005058.html
>> 
>> The state of the thread seems to have ended with the idea of wrapping a
>> wlan0 interface in a bridge, and then adding the bridge to a batman-adv
>> network. This worked (apparently) with batman-adv over ethernet, but will
>> not work over 802.11 because the kernel specifically prevents the bridge
>> from being created,
>> http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2010-January/020959.html
>> 
>> There is some mention that batman-adv has ebtables support.
>> 
>> How can I get at that, to do what the people in the thread, were trying to
>> accomplish?
> 
> It does not exist. The ebtables support has been removed shortly after its 
> introduction because it came with some disadvantages. Unless you invest some 
> time to implement something you won't have a solution.
> 
> Regards,
> Marek

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Disconnecting the nodes in batman-adv

[Marek Lindner]

On Friday, January 27, 2012 04:08:40 Andre Courchesne wrote:
> Ok, disabling loop avoidance has no effect.
> 
> Has ap_isolation been tested in this type of scenario?

Are you aware that you answered to a completely different mail ?


Regards,
Marek