Re: Question about batman for ARM

[Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>]

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On Friday, June 17, 2022 10:45:48 AM CEST Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> On Friday, 17 June 2022 10:41:46 CEST cchien@creonexsystems.com wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > We would like to use batman with a custom radio and are trying to figure
> > out what part of the source code we may need to modify to allow batman to
> > work with a custom radio. Custom radio means that the radio is not a
> > commercial radio, such as wi-fi or Bluetooth.
> batman-adv (especially with the B.A.T.M.A.N. IV algo) only requires that the
> device itself can transport ethernet frames (with proper unicast and
> broadcast behavior). If you need something else then you either need a
> virtual interface which does the translation from $whatever to ethernet
> (and back) - or you need to reimplement the B.A.T.M.A.N. IV/V algorithms
> yourself.

In other words, if your radio comes up as a regular Ethernet interface in 
Linux (like WiFi, for example), then you can easily run batman-adv on top of 
it. If that's not the case, then you can write a driver to present a (virtual) 
interface to the system like Sven suggested.

Cheers,
       Simon

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