On 05/10/2012 10:19 PM, Marek Lindner wrote:
On Friday, May 11, 2012 03:47:30 Matthias Schiffer wrote:
2nd, I think without batman-adv specific extensions LLDP isn't very useful, as the LLDP daemon only cares about the bat0/bridge MAC addresses, and not the hardif MAC addresses which are visible in the vis. The softif MAC addresses are shown in the vis as TT records, of course, but as one can't really discern between the adresses of the node itself and those of other clients on the bridge, it's rather useless in my opinion.
I understand all reason except for the last one. What are you trying to achieve that you need to auto-discover all batman-adv interfaces ? Are you trying to replace vis ? As far as I understood Martin was trying to point you to a protocol which broadcasts arbitrary data on layer2 (similar to mDNS on layer3).
I'm trying to merge vis data with other data, so I can create a map which contains node information as well as link qualify information et cetera. To archive this, I need a reliable way to relate batman-adv vis nodes with LLDP nodes.
Matthias