From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <50781309.3020608@altermundi.net> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:54:33 -0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?Tmljb0VjaMOhbml6?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <507798EE.80305@codigosur.org> <50779CA3.9070208@yahoo.de> <5077A77B.3040803@altermundi.net> <20121012071559.GB2564@ritirata.org> <5077EE5F.8030601@yahoo.de> In-Reply-To: <5077EE5F.8030601@yahoo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv: ap mode with isolation enabled 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: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking Cc: Marek Lindner On 10/12/12 07:18, Marek Lindner wrote: > On 10/12/2012 03:15 PM, Antonio Quartulli wrote: >> The behaviour is correct: OGMs are broadcast packets. In >> infrastructure mode, >> whatever broadcast packet a station sends gets to the AP which will >> re-broadcast >> it again. In this way every station gets it and from the batman-adv >> point of >> view it is like the packet was received directly from the other sta >> (the MAC >> addresses in the packet say so). Therefore you must enable >> ap-isolation in >> hostapd if you want batman-adv to behave as you expect. > I'd like to stress the point that batman-adv is not "confused" as you > describe it in your blog post. Antonio explained it already: In > infrastructure mode all station _are_ neighbors. Yes, I understand that, thus the use of quotes, but i'll try to find more appropriate wording; it's the human administrator watching originator tables that actually gets confused ;)