From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] batman-adv: Introduce no noflood mark
Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 09:30:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3693433.LtgH54LjNc@bentobox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190507072821.8147-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
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On Tuesday, 7 May 2019 09:28:21 CEST Linus Lüssing wrote:
> This mark prevents a multicast packet being flooded through the whole
> mesh. The advantage of marking certain multicast packets via e.g.
> ebtables instead of dropping is then the following:
>
> This allows an administrator to let specific multicast packets pass as
> long as they are forwarded to a limited number of nodes only and are
> therefore creating no burdon to unrelated nodes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
I still don't see why this has to be implemented in batman-adv and not as an
external filter (tc-ebpf or something like that).
Kind regards,
Sven
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-07 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-07 7:28 [PATCH v2] batman-adv: Introduce no noflood mark Linus Lüssing
2019-05-07 7:30 ` Sven Eckelmann [this message]
2019-05-07 8:00 ` Marek Lindner
2019-05-07 8:21 ` Sven Eckelmann
2019-05-07 15:17 ` Linus Lüssing
2019-05-07 15:34 ` Linus Lüssing
2019-05-07 15:45 ` Sven Eckelmann
2019-05-14 8:19 ` Linus Lüssing
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