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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2] batman-adv: fix visualization output
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On 05/08/2012 08:04 AM, Marek Lindner wrote:
> On Monday, May 07, 2012 19:10:19 Matthias Schiffer wrote:
>> On 05/07/2012 08:40 AM, Marek Lindner wrote:
>>> If you wish to replace the mac addresses with readable name you can
>>> simply use a bat-hosts file to tell batctl which mac address should b=
e
>>> replaced. Check the bat-hosts section in our batctl online manpage:
>>> http://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/manpages/batctl.8.html
>>
>> I know about bat-hosts, but this only works when the host displaying t=
he
>> data knows all the MAC address/hostname mappings. For community meshs
>> like Freifunk networks it would be much nicer to allow each host to
>> supply its own hostname for vis in my opinion. I think one possibility=

>> to add this without breaking compatiblity would be adding a hostname
>> record after the neighbor entries in the vis packets.
>=20
> Flooding the network with arbitrary data like hostnames, service=20
> announcements, weather info, etc comes up from time to time but it ofte=
n boils=20
> down to the question: Why does it have to be in the kernel ? There are =
several=20
> ways to implement this feature in user space today without changing the=
 kernel=20
> code.
>=20
> Regards,
> Marek

I see your point, but then one could also ask why the visualization has
to be in the kernel at all...

Matthias


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