Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] alfred: Make sure only link-local EUI64 is used as source

[Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>]

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On Wednesday 25 March 2015 19:51:07 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> The linux kernel automatically chooses the source address. This can make
> problems when the metric prefers an address which is not the link-local
> EUI64 address. For example an user can add an additional address which also
> can be used for link-local communication but has a higher value in the
> metric. This can cause alfred to send UDP link-local packets with an
> address which cannot be decoded by the receiver to get the MAC address of
> the device. The communication with this device would then fail.
> 
> It is possible to define the source address when we directly bind to it.
> This has the problem that this address cannot receive packets with a
> multicast address as destination. The workaround is to create two sockets
> for one netsock structure. One is the socket which can send all data and
> receives unicast packets. The second one is receiving the multicast traffic
> like the announcements from master alfred server processes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

Applied in revision 986ca57, added Moritz Warnings "Tested-by" as per ticket 
#208 [1]. 

Thanks a lot!
    Simon


[1] http://www.open-mesh.org/issues/208

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