Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] No rebroadcast on mesh links

Antonio Quartulli
2016-03-31T16:01:41Z

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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 02:11:19PM +0200, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> I thought a little more on automation, but I'm now at a point to agree that
> there is no good way to do it - at least I'm out of ideas. If anyone else has
> some ideas, please speak up NOW. :)

Some time ago we had a proposal (by Linus I believe) which was about detecting
transitive interfaces by exchanging neighbour tables between peers. This way a
node can understand if every other node behind an interface can talk to each
other or not.

Although this approach sounds more complex, it would also help optimizing the wifi
case: a node can understand if the hosts in an adhoc cells can all talk to each
other and then avoid the retransmission (thus saving previous airtime - as we
would save bandwidth in a VPN).

The only problem is that this would work only after extending BATMAN V and would
unlikely be implemented in BATMAN IV.

Not sure if Linus (?) or anybody else is willing to work on this....but I guess
people would like a solution to be used on BATMAN IV ? Or is this an option ?

Cheers,

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Antonio Quartulli

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