Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] MAC addresses of loop detect frames in global translation-table

On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 5:56:31 PM CEST Linus Lüssing wrote:

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 04:40:56PM +0200, Simon Wunderlich wrote: Although, sending these mesh wide sounds like it could create quite some overhead? Is this new to BLA2?

Yes, it's new in BLA2. Actually it wasn't in the first BLA2 as well, we merged the patch not so long ago.

The loop detection packet is sent every 60 seconds as a broadcast to the LAN. It will therefore only end up in the mesh if there are other mesh nodes on the same backbone LAN to forward it. Therefore, I think the overhead for community networks at least should be minimal.

Cheers, Simon