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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC v2 0/5] batman-adv netlink query API
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On Friday 18 March 2016 13:00:54 Matthias Schiffer wrote:
[...]
> > What about the "socket" file?
[...]
> 
> Ah, I forgot about that one because it is very different from the others.
> 
> I think it should be possible to convert "socket" as well by wrapping the
> BATADV_ICMP packets in netlink packets. Or maybe it would be possible to
> drop that altogether and just do ping/traceroute in userspace with
> AF_PACKET or similar?

The latter could be problematic for TP meter implementation [1,2,3,4,5].
Antonio, do you have an opinion about that?

Kind regards,
	Sven

[1] https://patchwork.open-mesh.org/patch/15807/
[2] https://patchwork.open-mesh.org/patch/15808/
[3] https://patchwork.open-mesh.org/patch/15809/
[4] https://patchwork.open-mesh.org/patch/15810/
[5] https://patchwork.open-mesh.org/patch/15811/

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