Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv: Raw Socket Communication

[Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>]

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:25:33AM +0800, Marek Lindner wrote:
> 
> HI,
> 
> > Now I switch to MAC address of bat0 as the source and destination
> > address. In this case, I only have two nodes. Node A and node C.
> > 
> > Now, I cannot send packet from node A to node C, and vice versa.
> > However, when I do batctl tcpdump bat0 on the receiver side, I can see
> > print out shown in the following.
> > 
> > Warning - packet contains unknown ether type: 0x1337.
> > 
> > Not sure what should I do now.
> 
> this just means that batctl does not know how to print this packet type. Not 
> surprising - you just created the packet type yourself. How should batctl know 
> about it ? 
> 
> I'd say if you get this warning on the other end your packet was successfully 
> delivered.
> 
> Antonio, wouldn't it be possible to get the bat0 mac address from the global 
> table even if there were other clients bridged into that node ? The bat0 entry 
> should be the only one with the no_purge flag set.

That is a local flag. It is not advertised and so not reported by the Global
Translation Table.

Cheers,


-- 
Antonio Quartulli

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Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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