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From: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@web.de>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: fix counter for multicast supporting nodes
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:32:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141011103222.GD31424@odroid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412975746-6856-1-git-send-email-linus.luessing@web.de>

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:15:46PM +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> A miscounting of nodes having multicast optimizations enabled can lead
> to multicast packet loss in the following scenario:
> 
> If the first OGM a node receives from another one has no multicast
> optimizations support (no multicast tvlv) then we are missing to
> increase the counter. This potentially leads to the wrong assumption
> that we could safely use multicast optimizations.
> 
> Fixings this by increasing the counter if the initial OGM has the
> multicast TVLV unset, too.
> 
> Introduced by 77ec494490d60d89b42cd01d5dbf8dee04503623
> ("batman-adv: Announce new capability via multicast TVLV")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
> ---
>  multicast.c |    8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reported-by: Tobias Hachmer <tobias@hachmer.de>

      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-11 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-10 21:15 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: fix counter for multicast supporting nodes Linus Lüssing
2014-10-11 10:32 ` Linus Lüssing [this message]

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