batman-adv gateway issue

batman-adv gateway issue

[Maksim Iushchenko]

Hello,
I use batman-adv to create a mesh network and recently I faced an
issue related to batman-adv gateways.
I have a mesh network based on batman-adv. Each node in my network has
certain coordinates. Each node uses these coordinates to generate it's
own IPv6 address and sets it to bat0 interface. Therefore, network's
node has a static IPv6 address contains encoded coordinates.
The purpose is to provide an Internet access to all mesh network nodes
via gateway node. I already configured gateway node as gateway server
and all rest nodes as gateway client. But in my case each gateway
client wants to know default route to the gateway node and, in
particular, it's IP-address.
Please, suggest me how can I distribute default route to all nodes in
the mesh network in the case where nodes have static IPv6-addresses
(and also it is necessary to maintain the actual default gateway on
the nodes). Or, please, suggest me how is better to provide an
Internet access to all nodes and distribute their coordinates in the
network.
Thanks in advance

Re: batman-adv gateway issue

[Sven Eckelmann]

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On Monday, 16 March 2020 13:15:18 CET Maksim Iushchenko wrote:
> Hello,
> I use batman-adv to create a mesh network and recently I faced an
> issue related to batman-adv gateways.

What are batman-adv gateways? Are you talking about the batman-adv gateway 
feature? This feature is only about IPv4 DHCP (broadcast) requests.

[...]
> Please, suggest me how can I distribute default route to all nodes in
> the mesh network in the case where nodes have static IPv6-addresses
> (and also it is necessary to maintain the actual default gateway on
> the nodes). 

This has nothing to do with batman-adv. Sounds more like IPv6 router 
advertisement.

Kind regards,
	Sven

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