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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 0/6] DAT: Distributed ARP Table
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On 10/30/2011 01:55 AM, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> Hello people,
> as most of you may already know, last summer I've been working on the
> B.A.T.M.A.N.-Adv GSoC project named "DAT: Distributed ARP Table". For who wants
> to get deeper into the details of the project there are two links:
> - The GSoC proposal [1]
> - The DAT wikipage on open-mesh.org [2], with status and ideas description
> 
> Just to recap: DAT is a distributes hash table meant to store ARP entries for
> fast lookup. In a normal scenario, whenever a node wants to communicate with
> another one, it first needs to issue a broadcast ARP request in order to
> retrieve its PHY/MAC address. In a sparse network a broadcast message could be
> lost several times before reaching the real destination so creating high
> latencies. With DAT, every ARP entries (a pair [IP addr, MAC addr]) is stored on
> a "computed" set of nodes, therefore in case of ARP request theses nodes can
> directly be contacted (in unicast) and the needed information can be quickly
> fetched.
> 
> Cheers,
> Antonio
> 
> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/ordex/4001
> [2] http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/DAT

The link to the Wiki page doesn't work.

The actual link:

http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/DistributedArpTable

Except there is no information there :(

Gus