B.A.T.M.A.N October 2019

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[B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv and/or batmand porting effort to FreeBSD
by Mahdi Mokhtari 28 Dec '19

28 Dec '19

Hi, After some time of playing with the B.A.T.M.A.N protocol and net-interface on OpenWRT and Debian I was thinking to use it with the servers I use everyday (and maybe on routers/appliances I have nanoBSD on). So I started an effort... (As a background) I already ported some applications to FreeBSD [and I'm maintaining them] and also I did work already on the Linux emulation layer of FreeBSD (FreeBSD has a Linux syscall-emulation and Linux-KPI layers). So my approach (as naturally I didn't expect the build of batman-adv.ko to be successful as is), was based on the approach that we [at FreeBSD] did to port Linux's drm... <https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/kms-drm> I ended up in adding some header-files to FreeBSD Linux-KPI (like average.h, percpu.h, ...). Now I'm at a state that Netlink blocks me and I'm to determine next step :-) [Which I don't assume it being trivial with my current approach] So I'd like to ask: 1- Is it better approach to "rewrite" batman-adv.ko [at least Netlink-ish (let's call "Linuxism") parts] than what I'm doing now? 2- Any other efforts are being done out there? 3- is batmand deprecated [So I should mainly focus on batman-adv.ko]? 4- any other comments do you have? :D P.S. sorry if I'm not really good at starting conversation from scratch and out-of-nowhere :D but I hope by continuing the collaboration we can have better (more enriched) FreeBSD and better (as in more portable) B.A.T.M.A.N :-) -- Best regards, MMokhi.

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[B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH v5 0/7] B.A.T.M.A.N. V - fallback to tp meter estimation if throughput otherwise not available
by Marek Lindner 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Under normal circumstances B.A.T.M.A.N. V retrieves the neighbor throughput values to populate its metric tables from the various drivers such as WiFi throughput tables and Ethernet throughput.. Whenever the interface drivers do not export link throughput information manual overrides become necessary. To further automate and thus better support these setups, ELP may call the batman-adv throughput meter to schedule a throughput estimation to be used to populate the metric table. v5: * fix tp_vars refcount on queue_work() failure * squash batadv_tp_start_work() into batadv_tp_start() v4: * read tp measurement result only once v3: * fix ELP tp meter result computation * use batadv_has_timed_out() instead of custom implementation * set ELP tp meter test duration to 1000ms in patch #6 * add comment explaining periodic scheduling v2: * added sysfs attribute to configure tp meter test duration * fixed null pointer dereference in TP meter packet sending routine * fixed storing the measured throughput in the correct variable * checkpatch/kerneldoc/sparse/smatch cleanup Antonio Quartulli (3): batman-adv: tp_meter - prevent concurrent tp_meter sessions by using workqueue batman-adv: tp_meter - don't check for existing session batman-adv: tp_meter - add option to perform one-hop test Marek Lindner (4): batman-adv: tp_meter - allow up to 10 queued sessions batman-adv: tp_meter - add caller distinction batman-adv: ELP - use tp meter to estimate the throughput if otherwise not available batman-adv: ELP - add throughput meter test duration attribute .../ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net-batman-adv | 7 + include/uapi/linux/batadv_packet.h | 2 + net/batman-adv/bat_v.c | 1 + net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c | 69 ++- net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.h | 21 + net/batman-adv/main.c | 10 +- net/batman-adv/main.h | 7 +- net/batman-adv/netlink.c | 3 +- net/batman-adv/routing.c | 6 +- net/batman-adv/sysfs.c | 3 + net/batman-adv/tp_meter.c | 484 +++++++++++------- net/batman-adv/tp_meter.h | 11 +- net/batman-adv/types.h | 36 ++ 13 files changed, 453 insertions(+), 207 deletions(-) -- 2.18.0

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[PATCH] batman-adv: Axe 'aggr_list_lock'
by Christophe JAILLET 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

'aggr_list.lock' can safely be used in place of another explicit spinlock when access to 'aggr_list' has to be guarded. This avoids to take 2 locks, knowing that the 2nd one is always successful. Now that the 'aggr_list.lock' is handled explicitly, the lock-free __sbk_something() variants should be used when dealing with 'aggr_list'. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet(a)wanadoo.fr> --- Compile tested only. --- net/batman-adv/bat_v.c | 1 - net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- net/batman-adv/types.h | 3 --- 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_v.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_v.c index 64054edc2e3c..4ff6cf1ecae7 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v.c @@ -1085,7 +1085,6 @@ void batadv_v_hardif_init(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_len = 0; skb_queue_head_init(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list); - spin_lock_init(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_wq, batadv_v_ogm_aggr_work); } diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c index b841c83d9c3b..c9a00100f199 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static unsigned int batadv_v_ogm_len(struct sk_buff *skb) * @skb: the OGM to check * @hard_iface: the interface to use to send the OGM * - * Caller needs to hold the hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock. + * Caller needs to hold the hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock. * * Return: True, if the given OGMv2 packet still fits, false otherwise. */ @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ static bool batadv_v_ogm_queue_left(struct sk_buff *skb, BATADV_MAX_AGGREGATION_BYTES); unsigned int ogm_len = batadv_v_ogm_len(skb); - lockdep_assert_held(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock); + lockdep_assert_held(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock); return hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_len + ogm_len <= max; } @@ -173,13 +173,13 @@ static bool batadv_v_ogm_queue_left(struct sk_buff *skb, * * Empties the OGMv2 aggregation queue and frees all the skbs it contained. * - * Caller needs to hold the hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock. + * Caller needs to hold the hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock. */ static void batadv_v_ogm_aggr_list_free(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) { - lockdep_assert_held(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock); + lockdep_assert_held(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock); - skb_queue_purge(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list); + __skb_queue_purge(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list); hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_len = 0; } @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static void batadv_v_ogm_aggr_list_free(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) * * The aggregation queue is empty after this call. * - * Caller needs to hold the hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock. + * Caller needs to hold the hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock. */ static void batadv_v_ogm_aggr_send(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) { @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static void batadv_v_ogm_aggr_send(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) unsigned int ogm_len; struct sk_buff *skb; - lockdep_assert_held(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock); + lockdep_assert_held(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock); if (!aggr_len) return; @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static void batadv_v_ogm_aggr_send(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) skb_reserve(skb_aggr, ETH_HLEN + NET_IP_ALIGN); skb_reset_network_header(skb_aggr); - while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list))) { + while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list))) { hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_len -= batadv_v_ogm_len(skb); ogm_len = batadv_v_ogm_len(skb); @@ -242,13 +242,13 @@ static void batadv_v_ogm_queue_on_if(struct sk_buff *skb, return; } - spin_lock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock); + spin_lock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock); if (!batadv_v_ogm_queue_left(skb, hard_iface)) batadv_v_ogm_aggr_send(hard_iface); hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_len += batadv_v_ogm_len(skb); - skb_queue_tail(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list, skb); - spin_unlock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock); + __skb_queue_tail(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list, skb); + spin_unlock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock); } /** @@ -373,9 +373,9 @@ void batadv_v_ogm_aggr_work(struct work_struct *work) batv = container_of(work, struct batadv_hard_iface_bat_v, aggr_wq.work); hard_iface = container_of(batv, struct batadv_hard_iface, bat_v); - spin_lock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock); + spin_lock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock); batadv_v_ogm_aggr_send(hard_iface); - spin_unlock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock); + spin_unlock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock); batadv_v_ogm_start_queue_timer(hard_iface); } @@ -406,9 +406,9 @@ void batadv_v_ogm_iface_disable(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) { cancel_delayed_work_sync(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_wq); - spin_lock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock); + spin_lock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock); batadv_v_ogm_aggr_list_free(hard_iface); - spin_unlock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock); + spin_unlock_bh(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list.lock); } /** diff --git a/net/batman-adv/types.h b/net/batman-adv/types.h index be7c02aa91e2..75a72d6676ec 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/types.h +++ b/net/batman-adv/types.h @@ -126,9 +126,6 @@ struct batadv_hard_iface_bat_v { /** @aggr_len: size of the OGM aggregate (excluding ethernet header) */ unsigned int aggr_len; - /** @aggr_list_lock: protects aggr_list */ - spinlock_t aggr_list_lock; - /** * @throughput_override: throughput override to disable link * auto-detection -- 2.20.1

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[PATCH] batman-adv: Simplify 'batadv_v_ogm_aggr_list_free()'
by Christophe JAILLET 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Use 'skb_queue_purge()' instead of re-implementing it. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet(a)wanadoo.fr> --- BTW, I don't really see the need of 'aggr_list_lock'. I think that the code could be refactored to drop 'aggr_list_lock' and use the already existing 'aggr_list.lock'. This would require to use the lock-free __skb_... variants when working on 'aggr_list'. As far as I understand, the use of 'aggr_list' and 'aggr_list_lock' is limited to bat_v_ogm.c'. So the impact would be limited. This would avoid a useless locking that never fails, so the performance gain should be really limited. So, I'm not sure this would be more readable and/or future proof, so I just note it here to open the discussion. If interested, I have a (compiled tested only) patch that implements this change. --- net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c index dc4f7430cb5a..b841c83d9c3b 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c @@ -177,13 +177,9 @@ static bool batadv_v_ogm_queue_left(struct sk_buff *skb, */ static void batadv_v_ogm_aggr_list_free(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface) { - struct sk_buff *skb; - lockdep_assert_held(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list_lock); - while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list))) - kfree_skb(skb); - + skb_queue_purge(&hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_list); hard_iface->bat_v.aggr_len = 0; } -- 2.20.1

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Re: BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS too low!
by syzbot 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

syzbot has bisected this bug to: commit ab92d68fc22f9afab480153bd82a20f6e2533769 Author: Taehee Yoo <ap420073(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon Oct 21 18:47:51 2019 +0000 net: core: add generic lockdep keys bisection log: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/bisect.txt?x=12e05224e00000 start commit: 60c1769a Add linux-next specific files for 20191028 git tree: linux-next final crash: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/report.txt?x=11e05224e00000 console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=16e05224e00000 kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=cb86688f30db053d dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=692f39f040c1f415567b syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=10be9ed0e00000 Reported-by: syzbot+692f39f040c1f415567b(a)syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: ab92d68fc22f ("net: core: add generic lockdep keys") For information about bisection process see: https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ#bisection

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Re: INFO: trying to register non-static key in bond_3ad_update_ad_actor_settings
by syzbot 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

syzbot has bisected this bug to: commit ab92d68fc22f9afab480153bd82a20f6e2533769 Author: Taehee Yoo <ap420073(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon Oct 21 18:47:51 2019 +0000 net: core: add generic lockdep keys bisection log: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/bisect.txt?x=12b54d70e00000 start commit: 60c1769a Add linux-next specific files for 20191028 git tree: linux-next final crash: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/report.txt?x=11b54d70e00000 console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=16b54d70e00000 kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=cb86688f30db053d dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8da67f407bcba2c72e6e syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=14d43a04e00000 C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=16be3b9ce00000 Reported-by: syzbot+8da67f407bcba2c72e6e(a)syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: ab92d68fc22f ("net: core: add generic lockdep keys") For information about bisection process see: https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ#bisection

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Re: INFO: trying to register non-static key in bond_3ad_update_lacp_rate
by syzbot 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

syzbot has bisected this bug to: commit ab92d68fc22f9afab480153bd82a20f6e2533769 Author: Taehee Yoo <ap420073(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon Oct 21 18:47:51 2019 +0000 net: core: add generic lockdep keys bisection log: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/bisect.txt?x=1467f674e00000 start commit: 60c1769a Add linux-next specific files for 20191028 git tree: linux-next final crash: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/report.txt?x=1667f674e00000 console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1267f674e00000 kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=cb86688f30db053d dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0d083911ab18b710da71 syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=15381ee0e00000 C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=11571570e00000 Reported-by: syzbot+0d083911ab18b710da71(a)syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: ab92d68fc22f ("net: core: add generic lockdep keys") For information about bisection process see: https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ#bisection

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[PATCH 0/2] pull request for net: batman-adv 2019-10-25
by Simon Wunderlich 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

Hi David, here are two bugfixes which we would like to have integrated into net. Please pull or let me know of any problem! Thank you, Simon The following changes since commit 54ecb8f7028c5eb3d740bb82b0f1d90f2df63c5c: Linux 5.4-rc1 (2019-09-30 10:35:40 -0700) are available in the Git repository at: git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge.git tags/batadv-net-for-davem-20191025 for you to fetch changes up to 40e220b4218bb3d278e5e8cc04ccdfd1c7ff8307: batman-adv: Avoid free/alloc race when handling OGM buffer (2019-10-13 21:00:07 +0200) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here are two batman-adv bugfixes: * Fix free/alloc race for OGM and OGMv2, by Sven Eckelmann (2 patches) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sven Eckelmann (2): batman-adv: Avoid free/alloc race when handling OGM2 buffer batman-adv: Avoid free/alloc race when handling OGM buffer net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ net/batman-adv/bat_v_ogm.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++------ net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 2 ++ net/batman-adv/types.h | 7 +++++ 4 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

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general protection fault in batadv_iv_ogm_queue_add
by syzbot 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Hello, syzbot found the following crash on: HEAD commit: 998d7551 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) git tree: upstream console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1702db87600000 kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=e0ac4d9b35046343 dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7dd2da51d8ae6f990403 compiler: gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental) Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this crash yet. IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit: Reported-by: syzbot+7dd2da51d8ae6f990403(a)syzkaller.appspotmail.com kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN CPU: 0 PID: 4256 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc3+ #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet RIP: 0010:batadv_iv_ogm_queue_add+0x49/0x1120 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:605 Code: 48 89 75 b8 48 89 4d c0 4c 89 45 b0 44 89 4d d0 e8 fc 02 46 fa 48 8d 7b 03 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 48 89 fa 83 e2 07 38 d0 7f 08 84 c0 0f 85 18 0d 00 00 RSP: 0018:ffff88805d2cfb80 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff888092284000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff872d1214 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: ffff88805d2cfc18 R08: ffff888092284000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffffed100ba59f77 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: dffffc0000000000 R13: ffffed101245080e R14: ffff888092284000 R15: 0000000100051cf6 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880ae800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000200002c0 CR3: 00000000a421b000 CR4: 00000000001426f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: batadv_iv_ogm_schedule+0xb0b/0xe50 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:813 batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x580/0x760 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1675 process_one_work+0x9af/0x1740 kernel/workqueue.c:2269 worker_thread+0x98/0xe40 kernel/workqueue.c:2415 kthread+0x361/0x430 kernel/kthread.c:255 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352 Modules linked in: ---[ end trace 04d065842187c2b8 ]--- RIP: 0010:batadv_iv_ogm_queue_add+0x49/0x1120 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:605 Code: 48 89 75 b8 48 89 4d c0 4c 89 45 b0 44 89 4d d0 e8 fc 02 46 fa 48 8d 7b 03 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 48 89 fa 83 e2 07 38 d0 7f 08 84 c0 0f 85 18 0d 00 00 RSP: 0018:ffff88805d2cfb80 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff888092284000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff872d1214 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: ffff88805d2cfc18 R08: ffff888092284000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffffed100ba59f77 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: dffffc0000000000 R13: ffffed101245080e R14: ffff888092284000 R15: 0000000100051cf6 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880ae800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000200002c0 CR3: 00000000a421b000 CR4: 00000000001426f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 --- This bug is generated by a bot. It may contain errors. See https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ for more information about syzbot. syzbot engineers can be reached at syzkaller(a)googlegroups.com. syzbot will keep track of this bug report. See: https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ#status for how to communicate with syzbot.

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Batman-adv behind bridge to wireless?
by dan 20 Oct '19

20 Oct '19

I'm considering a certain deployment model here and wanted to get some expert input. The design would be -batman-adv router (could be raspberry pi, or pcengines, etc) -1,2,3 etc complete radio devices doing 802.11s or dynamic WDS etc with that radio interface bridged to an ethernet port connected to the batman-adv router. This might be called 'radio on a stick'. an example might be 2 mikrotik omnitik ac devices on different channels, each with their 5Ghz radio configured as ap-bridge with dynamic WDS, those WDS interfaces would be bridged with horizon (to eliminate loops) and 1 ethernet interface w/o horizon. Those interfaces would connect to the batman-adv router. mikrotik has an hwmp based mesh, but it's primitive and I don't want nodes responding to other nodes in that mesh, I want batman-adv magic in the mix. I might utilize this interface but with a 1 hop limit so it works a lot like a horizon bridge without using horizon. this design appears as ptp links plugged into a switch and has no opportunity for loops. Each batman-adv router can broadcast and each other batman-adv will receive that through the bridge because it doesn't have horizon set, but the A and C devices that are 'bridged' by B can't because those interfaces share horizon on B, or the hop limit depending on the interface used. I'm thinking that solves any issues batman-adv might have with putting the 'switch/hub' of sorts in the middle. One thing I'm trying to solve here is the classic single radio mesh issue of halves bandwidth, as well as having link health in the mix without taking an interface offline. I'd rather have 2% packet loss on an interface that have 100% packet loss. additionally, this is for a hybrid mesh design where there is a ~50 node mesh with 2-3 backhauls to a mesh entry point on a tower, and then likely a 'midspan' link or two with high capacity radios to reduce hop count. finally, this allows me to use off-the-shelf devices with pole mounts etc for this while running the batman-adv router on the ground in an appropriate container. A raspberry pi4 would be a great router for this and I could use VLANs up the feed ethernet link. Thoughts?

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