My attempts to use the hop_penalty failed, since I do not have control over the RF environment. So, I am resurrecting an old thread to find out if this is possible : https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2011-July/005058.html
The state of the thread seems to have ended with the idea of wrapping a wlan0 interface in a bridge, and then adding the bridge to a batman-adv network. This worked (apparently) with batman-adv over ethernet, but will not work over 802.11 because the kernel specifically prevents the bridge from being created, http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2010-January/020959.html
There is some mention that batman-adv has ebtables support.
How can I get at that, to do what the people in the thread, were trying to accomplish?
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