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Simon Wunderlich e19f9759ed batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:19 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich f3b3d90189 batman-adv: add bonding again
With the new interface alternating, the first hop may send packets
in a round robin fashion to it's neighbors because it has multiple
valid routes built by the multi interface optimization. This patch
enables the feature if bonding is selected. Note that unlike the
bonding implemented before, this version is much simpler and may
even enable multi path routing to a certain degree.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:15 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich 7351a4822d batman-adv: split out router from orig_node
For the network wide multi interface optimization there are different
routers for each outgoing interface (outgoing from the OGM perspective,
incoming for payload traffic). To reflect this, change the router and
associated data to a list of routers.

While at it, rename batadv_orig_node_get_router() to
batadv_orig_router_get() to follow the new naming scheme.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:11 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich f6c8b71173 batman-adv: remove bonding and interface alternating
Remove bonding and interface alternating code - it will be replaced
by a new, network-wide multi interface optimization which enables
both bonding and interface alternating in a better way.

Keep the sysfs and find router function though, this will be needed
later.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:10 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli ebf38fb7ab batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimer
As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the
FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in
its documentation.

In this way it is easier to update it in case of future
changes.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:39 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli 6680a1249f batman-adv: adapt bonding to use the new API functions
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-23 15:33:12 +02:00
Martin Hundebøll 610bfc6bc9 batman-adv: Receive fragmented packets and merge
Fragments arriving at their destination are buffered for later merge.
Merged packets are passed to the main receive function as had they never
been fragmented.

Fragments are forwarded without merging if the MTU of the outgoing
interface is smaller than the size of the merged packet.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 11:58:34 +02:00
Martin Hundebøll f097e25dbe batman-adv: Remove old fragmentation code
Remove the existing fragmentation code before adding the new version
and delete unicast.{h,c}.

batadv_unicast_send_skb() is moved to send.c and renamed to
batadv_send_skb_unicast().

fragmentation entry in sysfs (bat_priv->fragmentation) is kept for use in
the new fragmentation code.

BATADV_UNICAST_FRAG packet type is renamed to BATADV_FRAG for use in the
new fragmentation code.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 11:58:33 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich a1f1ac5c4d batman-adv: reorder packet types
Reordering the packet type numbers allows us to handle unicast
packets in a general way - even if we don't know the specific packet
type, we can still forward it. There was already code handling
this for a couple of unicast packets, and this is the more
generalized version to do that.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:34 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich 9f4980e68b batman-adv: remove vis functionality
This is replaced by a userspace program, we don't need this
functionality to bloat the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:32 +02:00
Marek Lindner ef26157747 batman-adv: tvlv - basic infrastructure
The goal is to provide the infrastructure for sending, receiving and
parsing information 'containers' while preserving backward
compatibility. TVLV (based on the commonly known Type Length Value
technique) was chosen as the format for those containers. Even if a
node does not know the tvlv type of a certain container it can simply
skip the current container and proceed with the next. Past experience
has shown features evolve over time, so a 'version' field was added
right from the start to allow differentiating between feature
variants - hence the name: T(ype) V(ersion) L(ength) V(alue).

This patch introduces the basic TVLV infrastructure:
 * register / unregister tvlv containers to be sent with each OGM
   (on primary interfaces only)
 * register / unregister callback handlers to be called upon
   finding the corresponding tvlv type in a tvlv buffer
 * unicast tvlv send / receive API calls

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Spyros Gasteratos <morfeas3000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:26 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli d989661732 batman-adv: move batadv_slide_own_bcast_window to bat_iv_ogm.c
batadv_slide_own_bcast_window() is used only in bat_iv_ogm.c
and it is currently touching only batman_iv specific
attributes.

Move it into bat_iv_ogm.c and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-05-29 02:44:54 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli 0b87393146 batman-adv: update copyright years
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-01-19 21:18:12 +08:00
Sven Eckelmann 56303d34a3 batman-adv: Prefix types structs with batadv_
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:21 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 9641269011 batman-adv: Prefix packet structs with batadv_
Reported-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:21 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 9cfc7bd608 batman-adv: Reformat multiline comments to consistent style
batman-adv doesn't follow the style for multiline comments that David S. Miller
prefers. All comments should be reformatted to follow this consistent style to
make the code slightly more readable.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-20 22:15:33 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 30d3c5113f batman-adv: Prefix routing non-static functions with batadv_
batman-adv can be compiled as part of the kernel instead of an module. In that
case the linker will see all non-static symbols of batman-adv and all other
non-static symbols of the kernel. This could lead to symbol collisions. A
prefix for the batman-adv symbols that defines their private namespace avoids
such a problem.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-06-20 22:15:25 +02:00
Marek Lindner c3e29312c8 batman-adv: register batman ogm receive function during protocol init
The B.A.T.M.A.N. IV OGM receive function still was hard-coded although
it is a routing protocol specific function. This patch takes advantage
of the dynamic packet handler registration to remove the hard-coded
function calls.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-05-11 10:08:11 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich a7f6ee9493 batman-adv: remove old bridge loop avoidance code
The functionality is to be replaced by an improved implementation,
so first clean up.

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
Sven Eckelmann 567db7b0b7 batman-adv: Update copyright years
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2012-02-17 02:50:21 +08:00
Marek Lindner fc95727564 batman-adv: agglomerate all batman iv ogm processing functions in a single file
In preparation of the upcoming improved routing algorithm the code based has
to be re-organized to allow choosing the routing algorithm at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-09-08 17:39:06 +02:00
Marek Lindner b6da4bf5d7 batman-adv: rename all instances of batman_packet to batman_ogm_packet
The follow-up routing code changes are going to introduce additional
routing packet types which make this distinction necessary.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-09-08 17:37:51 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli cc47f66e6b batman-adv: improved roaming mechanism
With the current client announcement implementation, in case of roaming,
an update is triggered on the new AP serving the client. At that point
the new information is spread around by means of the OGM broadcasting
mechanism. Until this operations is not executed, no node is able to
correctly route traffic towards the client. This obviously causes packet
drops and introduces a delay in the time needed by the client to recover
its connections.

A new packet type called ROAMING_ADVERTISEMENT is added to account this
issue.

This message is sent in case of roaming from the new AP serving the
client to the old one and will contain the client MAC address. In this
way an out-of-OGM update is immediately committed, so that the old node
can update its global translation table. Traffic reaching this node will
then be redirected to the correct destination utilising the fresher
information. Thus reducing the packet drops and the connection recovery
delay.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20 11:37:27 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli a73105b8d4 batman-adv: improved client announcement mechanism
The client announcement mechanism informs every mesh node in the network
of any connected non-mesh client, in order to find the path towards that
client from any given point in the mesh.

The old implementation was based on the simple idea of appending a data
buffer to each OGM containing all the client MAC addresses the node is
serving. All other nodes can populate their global translation tables
(table which links client MAC addresses to node addresses) using this
MAC address buffer and linking it to the node's address contained in the
OGM. A node that wants to contact a client has to lookup the node the
client is connected to and its address in the global translation table.

It is easy to understand that this implementation suffers from several
issues:
 - big overhead (each and every OGM contains the entire list of
   connected clients)
 - high latencies for client route updates due to long OGM trip time and
   OGM losses

The new implementation addresses these issues by appending client
changes (new client joined or a client left) to the OGM instead of
filling it with all the client addresses each time. In this way nodes
can modify their global tables by means of "updates", thus reducing the
overhead within the OGMs.

To keep the entire network in sync each node maintains a translation
table version number (ttvn) and a translation table checksum. These
values are spread with the OGM to allow all the network participants to
determine whether or not they need to update their translation table
information.

When a translation table lookup is performed in order to send a packet
to a client attached to another node, the destination's ttvn is added to
the payload packet. Forwarding nodes can compare the packet's ttvn with
their destination's ttvn (this node could have a fresher information
than the source) and re-route the packet if necessary. This greatly
reduces the packet loss of clients roaming from one AP to the next.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-20 11:37:24 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann 747e4221a0 batman-adv: Add const type qualifier for pointers
batman-adv uses pointers which are marked as const and should not
violate that type qualifier by passing it to functions which force a
cast to the non-const version.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-30 07:39:31 +02:00
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
Linus Lüssing 7cefb149a6 batman-adv: Remove unused hdr_size variable in route_unicast_packet()
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@ascom.ch>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:52:08 +01:00
Marek Lindner e6c10f433a batman-adv: rename batman_if struct to hard_iface
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:52:06 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich a4c135c561 batman-adv: protect bonding with rcu locks
bonding / alternating candidates need to be secured by rcu locks
as well. This patch therefore converts the bonding list
from a plain pointer list to a rcu securable lists and references
the bonding candidates.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-03-05 12:50:01 +01:00
Linus Lüssing ee1e884194 batman-adv: Remove duplicate types.h inclusions
types.h is included by main.h, which is included at the beginning of any
other c-file anyway. Therefore this commit removes those duplicate
inclussions.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@ascom.ch>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-02-11 23:30:29 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann 64afe35398 batman-adv: Update copyright years
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31 14:57:12 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich 74ef115359 batman-adv: remove unused parameters
Some function parameters are obsolete now and can be removed.

Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31 14:57:09 +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