Hi,
I've asked a quite while back for some ideas regarding the support for hard interface settings in batctl [1]. But I got no feedback at all. So I've decided to just implement the first option and use it as chance to improve the vlan settings.
vlan settings =============
The requirement to have a VLAN master device on top of the batadv mesh interface is artificially limiting the capabilities of batctl. Not all master devices in linux which register a VLAN are from type "vlan" and are only registering a single VLAN.
For example VLAN aware bridges can create multiple VLANs. These require that the VLAN is identified using the VID and not the vlan device.
It is now possible to specify the vlan using:
$ batctl vlan bat0.8 ap_isolation enable $ batctl -m bat0 vid 8 ap_isolation enable
hardif settings ===============
The infrastructure for the new vlan/vid prefix of commands can now be used to introduce another prefix: "hardif".
B.A.T.M.A.N. V introduced two additional settings which are hard (slave) interface specific. These can can finally be implemented in batctl. This will allow to change/read these settings when sysfs support is not enabled in the kernel.
$ batctl hardif eth0 throughput_override 15mbit $ batctl hardif eth0 elp_interval
Kind regards, Sven
[1] https://www.open-mesh.org/issues/373
Sven Eckelmann (4): batctl: Make vlan setting explicit batctl: Integrate hardif setting framework batctl: Add elp_interval setting command batctl: Add throughput_override setting command
Makefile | 2 + README.rst | 33 +++++++++ ap_isolation.c | 5 ++ elp_interval.c | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ main.c | 160 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- main.h | 10 ++- man/batctl.8 | 12 +++- sys.c | 57 ++++++++++++--- sys.h | 5 +- throughput_override.c | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 10 files changed, 470 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) create mode 100644 elp_interval.c create mode 100644 throughput_override.c