Sven Eckelmann sven.eckelmann@gmx.de writes:
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.
It seems rather unusual to have the complete routing protocol in kernel. And this is a lot of code. The normal way to do such things is to have the routing policy etc. in a user daemon and only let the kernel provide some services to this.
Could you elaborate a bit why this approach was not chosen?
I assume if it needs a switch it could have a switching "hot path" layer in kernel and the policy somewhere else.
You write
+Batman advanced was implemented as a Linux kernel driver to re- +duce the overhead to a minimum. It does not depend on any (other)
What overhead exactly?
-Andi