Sorry for the formatting: my client doesn't understand signed messages.
Lew quoted Marek who wrote:
This patch adds the functionality to detect other batman-adv nodes connected to the LAN and select a 'gateway' to talk to the non-batman-adv devices on this LAN.
Doing this defeats part of the purpose of running batman-adv on a LAN. Picture the case where nodes have links between each other both on their wireless interfaces and through Homeplug adapters like the old Netgear XE102 Ethernet-to-Powerline bridge.
Electing a single mesh-to-LAN gateway as proposed will blackhole any stations on that LAN unable to reach the elected gateway.
Not everything connected to a LAN port is a standard, reliable local area network. *smiles*
duncan.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lew Pitcher" lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca To: "The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking" b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv: softif lan loop avoidance