Hi!
I really liked your client roaming support presented at Battlemesh. But I am still afraid to deploy Batman in the network. As I understand, we should be migrating the whole network at same time each time a new version of Batman (or Linux kernel) is released, because you do not keep things backwards compatible? How serious is this limitation in practice?
I am also a bit afraid of L2 meshing. How problematic are floods in the network in practice? Like people broadcasting stuff and so on? Are there any filters possible for this?
We have a setup where nodes have WiFi connections and VPN links to central server. We are thinking of migration OpenVPN to L2TP tunnels, so on the central server there will be many tunnels dynamically created as nodes connect and disconnect. Is Batman able to add interfaces it operates during run-time? Probably we should not just bridge all tunnels and run Batman on top of that? This would probably hide that there are different links bellow from Batman? Or not? (For example, on OLSR we should not do this, because then nodes would discover each other over server as one hop/direct neighbors.)
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