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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:04:49 +0200
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH-maint-v2] batman-adv: check incoming
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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