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.] [PATCH-maint-v2] batman-adv: check incoming packet type for bla
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:04:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201207060004.49919.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341427099-12368-1-git-send-email-siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 20:38:19 Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> If the gateway functionality is used, some broadcast packets (DHCP
> requests) may be transmitted as unicast packets. As the bridge loop
> avoidance code now only considers the payload Ethernet destination,
> it may drop the DHCP request for clients which are claimed by other
> backbone gateways, because it falsely infers from the broadcast address
> that the right backbone gateway should havehandled the broadcast.
>
> Fix this by checking and delegating the batman-adv packet type used
> for transmission.
>
> Reported-by: Guido Iribarren <guidoiribarren@buenosaireslibre.org>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Applied in revision e324701.
Thanks,
Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-05 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-03 20:07 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] BLAII + gw_mode, DHCP sometimes gets dropped Guido Iribarren
2012-07-04 9:12 ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-07-04 12:43 ` Guido Iribarren
2012-07-04 13:12 ` Guido Iribarren
2012-07-04 14:05 ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-07-04 18:12 ` Guido Iribarren
2012-07-04 18:30 ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-07-04 18:46 ` Guido Iribarren
2012-07-05 19:51 ` Guido Iribarren
2012-07-06 8:24 ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-07-04 18:33 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH-maint] batman-adv: check incoming packet type for bla Simon Wunderlich
2012-07-04 18:38 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH-maint-v2] " Simon Wunderlich
2012-07-05 22:04 ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2012-07-04 13:49 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] BLAII + gw_mode, DHCP sometimes gets dropped Simon Wunderlich
2012-07-04 13:59 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: check incoming packet type for bla Simon Wunderlich
2012-07-04 18:40 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH-v2] " Simon Wunderlich
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