Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: allow snooping gratuitous ARP Replies

On Thursday, 14 February 2019 23:51:00 HKT Linus Lüssing wrote:

So far, gratuitous ARP Replies were ignored for DAT processing as it contains a broadcast MAC address. This patch changes this and allows snooping such ARP messages, too.

Gratuitous ARP Replies were ignored since this commit: ab361a9ccc5 ("batman-adv: filter ARP packets with invalid MAC addresses in

DAT")

You're kind enough to mention when the filter was introduced but fail to explain why the filter introduced in the past was has outlived its usefulness or how the new behavior addresses the previous concerns.

Cheers, Marek