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Sven Eckelmann a77e8c61db batman-adv: README cleanups
- Add routing_algo

- Remove date from README:
The date has to be updated when a patch touches the README. Therefore, nearly
every feature will modify this date. It can happens quite often that not only
one feature is currently in development or waiting on the mailinglist. This
creates merge conflicts when applying a patchset.

The date itself doesn't provide any additional information when this file is
only available in a release tarball or as part of a SCM repository.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-05-14 08:50:22 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich 9bf8e4d425 batman-adv: export claim tables through debugfs
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-04-11 14:28:59 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich 23721387c4 batman-adv: add basic bridge loop avoidance code
This second version of the bridge loop avoidance for batman-adv
avoids loops between the mesh and a backbone (usually a LAN).

By connecting multiple batman-adv mesh nodes to the same ethernet
segment a loop can be created when the soft-interface is bridged
into that ethernet segment. A simple visualization of the loop
involving the most common case - a LAN as ethernet segment:

node1  <-- LAN  -->  node2
  |                   |
wifi   <-- mesh -->  wifi

Packets from the LAN (e.g. ARP broadcasts) will circle forever from
node1 or node2 over the mesh back into the LAN.

With this patch, batman recognizes backbone gateways, nodes which are
part of the mesh and backbone/LAN at the same time. Each backbone
gateway "claims" clients from within the mesh to handle them
exclusively. By restricting that only responsible backbone gateways
may handle their claimed clients traffic, loops are effectively
avoided.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-04-11 14:28:58 +02:00
Marek Lindner 1a98489731 batman-adv: readme update (mention ap isolation and new log level)
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-11-20 13:08:37 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich 5f30a4ab4a batman-adv: update README (date & ap isolation sysfs file)
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-09-08 17:44:55 +02:00
David S. Miller 02e73c1edc Merge branch 'batman-adv/next' of git://git.open-mesh.org/ecsv/linux-merge 2011-05-08 15:39:11 -07:00
Antonio Quartulli 2dafb49d84 batman-adv: rename everything from *hna* into *tt* (translation table)
To be coherent, all the functions/variables/constants have been renamed
to the TranslationTable style

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-08 16:10:42 +02:00
Sylvestre Ledru f65e51d740 Documentation: fix minor typos/spelling
Fix some minor typos:
 * informations => information
 * there own => their own
 * these => this

Signed-off-by: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@scilab.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-04 17:51:47 -07:00
Sven Eckelmann 091b948306 batman-adv: Merge README of v2011.0.0 release
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31 14:57:13 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann c6c8fea297 net: Add batman-adv meshing protocol
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing
protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or
wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space
tools.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-12-16 13:44:24 -08:00