Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH-maint-v2] batman-adv: check incoming packet type for bla

On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 20:38:19 Simon Wunderlich wrote:

If the gateway functionality is used, some broadcast packets (DHCP requests) may be transmitted as unicast packets. As the bridge loop avoidance code now only considers the payload Ethernet destination, it may drop the DHCP request for clients which are claimed by other backbone gateways, because it falsely infers from the broadcast address that the right backbone gateway should havehandled the broadcast.

Fix this by checking and delegating the batman-adv packet type used for transmission.

Reported-by: Guido Iribarren guidoiribarren@buenosaireslibre.org Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de

Applied in revision e324701.

Thanks, Marek