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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] MAC addresses of loop detect frames in global
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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