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Linus Lüssing schrieb am 29.03.2016 um 02:02:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:19:09PM +0200, Roland Volkmann wrote:
>> Node A cannot know, whether you have scenario 1 or 2.
> But an ethernet driver or mac80211 with AP/STA interfaces
> (without ap-isolation) could. Or tinc with forwarding enabled
> would know. All these can be pretty sure that things are
> transitive and could set a TRANSITIVE flag quite safely.
>
> Any other interface type, driver etc. would leave the
> TRANSITIVE flag unset by default to be on the safe side.

Thank you for your explanations. Indeed covering most cases 
automatically but still have a knob for very special environments is a 
very good idea. I'm looking forward having this available - hopefully in 
short term.

Best regards,
Roland.