Sven Eckelmann wrote:
Hi,
I would assume that you don't monitor the bug as you didn't answer the questions on irc. So here the part of the IRC communication which needs comments/answers from your side.
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Just talked to Marek and we both are a little bit irritated by following part of your first "mail":
Further, if the UDP packet is large enough to fragment into 2 packets, a total of 6 packets are broacast, with only the very last packet being broadcast without error.
We don't know what fragmentation you are talking here. batman-adv doesn't fragment the broadcast packet, wifi shall not fragment the broadcast packet:
"only mpdus with a unicast receiver address shall be fragmented. broadcast/multicast frames shall not be fragmented even if their length exceeds dot11FragmentationThreshold" - ieee802.11-2007 page 255
So the only fragmentation seems to be the IP(v6) fragmentation - and this would mean that batman-adv only sees two independent packets which it rebroadcasts complete independent - therefore it doesn't make any sense that only the last of 6 packets isn't destroyed by the resend mechanism.
Could you please exactly tell us on which layer and which situation you experienced what behaviour and how you did your measurements.
Kind regards, Sven