Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: avoid DAT to mess up LAN state

[Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>]

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On 01/06/15 17:20, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> When a node running DAT receives an ARP request from the LAN for the
> first time, it is likely that this node will request the ARP entry
> through the distributed ARP table (DAT) in the mesh.
> 
> Once a DAT reply is received the asking node must check if the MAC
> address for which the IP address has been asked is local. If it is, the
> node must drop the ARP reply bceause the client should have replied on
> its own locally.
> 
> Forwarding this reply means fooling any L2 bridge (e.g. Ethernet
> switches) lying between the batman-adv node and the LAN. This happens
> because the L2 bridge will think that the client sending the ARP reply
> lies somewhere in the mesh, while this node is sitting in the same LAN.
> 
> Reported-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>

Although this patch is for the maint branch it was (unintentionally)
implemented on top of master.

Please use the "git am -3 $filename" when applying this patch on top of
maint.

Cheers,

-- 
Antonio Quartulli


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