Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Migration to Batman

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2012-04-12T17:10:42Z

Hi!

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> wrote:
> but only when the packet format (or something really
> crucial) is touched.

But couldn't the packet format be made so that unknown values in there
are simply ignored? And also ignore unknown packet types? So that at
least connectivity is possible, but not as good as it could be? For
example, if we have some node which reconnects after a month, it would
be great that it still is able to connect, so that we can at least
upgrade it.

> exactly. You can add/remove interfaces at run-time. Creating a bridge with all
> the tunnels would not be good because it would not make batman-adv exploit the
> interface diversity.

And it would also see all nodes as directly connected together? So:

[nodeA] --- [tunA on server, tunB on server] --- [nodeB]

If I bridge tunA and tunB together, nodeA will think that there is
only one hop to nodeB, no?

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