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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv7 5/7] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:19:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202271919.06934.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330280603-25510-6-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org>

On Monday, February 27, 2012 02:23:21 Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> In case of an ARP message going in or out the soft_iface, it is intercepted
> and a special action is performed. In particular the DHT helper functions
> previously implemented are used to store all the ARP entries belonging to
> the network in order to provide a fast and unicast lookup instead of the
> classic broadcast flooding mechanism.
> Each node stores the entries it is responsible for (following the DHT
> rules) in its soft_iface ARP table. This makes it possible to reuse the
> kernel data structures and functions for ARP management.

Applied in revision 79b67f7.

Thanks,
Marek

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-27 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-26 18:23 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv7 0/7] Distributed ARP Table Antonio Quartulli
2012-02-26 18:23 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv7 1/7] batman-adv: add UNICAST_4ADDR packet type Antonio Quartulli
2012-02-27 11:07   ` Marek Lindner
2012-02-26 18:23 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv7 2/7] batman-adv: add a new log level for DAT/ARP debugging Antonio Quartulli
2012-02-27 11:10   ` Marek Lindner
2012-02-26 18:23 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv7 3/7] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - create DHT helper functions Antonio Quartulli
2012-02-27 11:12   ` Marek Lindner
2012-02-26 18:23 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv7 4/7] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add ARP parsing functions Antonio Quartulli
2012-02-27 11:16   ` Marek Lindner
2012-02-26 18:23 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv7 5/7] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages Antonio Quartulli
2012-02-27 11:19   ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2012-02-26 18:23 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv7 6/7] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - increase default soft_iface ARP table timeout Antonio Quartulli
2012-02-27 11:22   ` Marek Lindner
2012-02-26 18:23 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv7 7/7] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add compile option Antonio Quartulli
2012-02-27 11:28   ` Marek Lindner

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