Re: [PATCH v2] batman-adv: Introduce no noflood mark

Sven Eckelmann
2019-05-07T07:30:46Z

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On Tuesday, 7 May 2019 09:28:21 CEST Linus Lüssing wrote:
> This mark prevents a multicast packet being flooded through the whole
> mesh. The advantage of marking certain multicast packets via e.g.
> ebtables instead of dropping is then the following:
>
> This allows an administrator to let specific multicast packets pass as
> long as they are forwarded to a limited number of nodes only and are
> therefore creating no burdon to unrelated nodes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>

I still don't see why this has to be implemented in batman-adv and not as an
external filter (tc-ebpf or something like that).

Kind regards,
Sven

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