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From: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
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.] MAC addresses of loop detect frames in global translation-table
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 17:56:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170531155631.GG29826@otheros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8268015.CIqWAenRvX@prime>

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 04:40:56PM +0200, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> we actually want those frames to pass through the mesh - otherwise we can't 
> find out if "regular" packets would loop through the mesh, so we have handle 
> those special packets like regular ones.

Ah, okay, thanks for the clarification! :)

> If we don't want to see them, we have to hide them, but we can't remove the 
> packet without hurting the functionality. :)

Yes, then filtering in batadv_tt_global_add() makes sense.

Although, sending these mesh wide sounds like it could create quite
some overhead? Is this new to BLA2?

Regards, Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-31 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-31 13:18 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] MAC addresses of loop detect frames in global translation-table Andreas Pape
2017-05-31 13:39 ` Simon Wunderlich
2017-05-31 14:20   ` Linus Lüssing
2017-05-31 14:40     ` Simon Wunderlich
2017-05-31 15:56       ` Linus Lüssing [this message]
2017-06-01  8:07         ` Simon Wunderlich
2017-06-01  6:12     ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Antwort: " Andreas Pape
2017-06-01  8:16       ` Simon Wunderlich

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