From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Sven Eckelmann Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:01:57 +0200 Message-ID: <2644807.rpvzRr0ts2@bentobox> In-Reply-To: References: <2670997.NDZah7qDiQ@bentobox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4927392.8c8rcN7n2n"; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batman-adv and routed subnets Reply-To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Id: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org --nextPart4927392.8c8rcN7n2n Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Friday 03 August 2012 11:40:43 Luca Pretto wrote: > Thanks for your answer Sven. > > So, I've obviously misunderstood the part "mixing non-B.A.T.M.A.N. systems > with batman-adv" [&] This thing only explains how to connect non-batman-adv systems like you would to with a switch... not routing. > I admit: the fact that batman-adv operates al L2 > really confuses me a lot! I'm a DIY nerd with no background training, so > it's quite difficult to me.. But I won't give up! ;D Just imagine that the mesh is a big switch. Such a thing that you have (propably) on your table. This version is not in one box, but build using connected small boxes. It depends on you how you want to give clients access to this switched network... just use L2 switches/bridges to connect them or use L3 routing to create smaller broadcast domains. > So, do you think that I should try to setup OSPF on every node, to keep the > thing as-much-auto-scaling-as-possible? Sry, will leave that open for someone else. > But in that case I suspect I won't be able to use the "Gateway support" > functions. Is it correct? [%] The gateway support stuff is just for DHCP routing. It helps sent a DHCP packet to the best gateway. And your setup (that routes packets) will not sent DHCP packets from clients over the mesh, but instead each router has to answer it. So yes, normal L3 setups will not benefit from the gateway support. You may still use it when you configure the dhcp server on the routers as dhcp- relay-agent (but only when they still forward the request as broadcast and not as unicast to a preconfigured server). Kind regards, Sven --nextPart4927392.8c8rcN7n2n Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABCgAGBQJQG6GVAAoJEF2HCgfBJntGj4wQAJxCcavOs+xgPVUBcqoFILdo pgUU7gSBAcPD/kJqaIcQgrtweYFBkpekR/1lg9zQd8tFJTtCy9dtqzUqT8t0cqe7 LveX4kmL/fqMzGKt/JssRwVftZoQuecK6C9ch/s483Uk5ZrWncFQ2WxBObRk5/By XDazXSqbleoTE0rEyXjXOrSH6HkOlFjYzx5i6pNortHFqxA5iQr5zgv8ToQtOdxV gALhvswKeOR3bJmLtADbECjANDLXTOu0F8mdLQZgEPNFJRJ9TrVVX6vcdkjVITQE p5mTevLb96KG8TY1nja8UNEXH5rZmqUa5wgSqH1v6qfsViEv0UW+AttctDa5oZLn nBaO8NbH+cU6CzuN1j3xcssJkrtdxXAMSIeIbA5xetbQXhOkY+c9zhPSHDSFmqhQ D2ir50fx/aiNPBIgcmlvy52xEDPfC+2O4AMMg9LAd5Ccyx55DuWhjzdLjIBLlQg7 RtefV8cb5+dKRAzP/Ls58YEaQo1T46aTgkPIwHbIIuoUWJgH1fJ6UAScUJfUp5+h pxaZknKDhHCWX3a5yM8RXD7lB0Tc7x/4SUge8NAxCEq9iM7kexuXOC2v8HqyEV2X Zc4HbW6WNOeBx1sXOnUZmbJdjEhCP1qG0cZ8iBnrbWLqdAtdrGFnLeGvA7F7Wn2B dLg7CZVmB/jZKyBYi/qM =HXdW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4927392.8c8rcN7n2n--