Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv: ap mode with isolation enabled

On 10/12/2012 03:15 PM, Antonio Quartulli wrote:

The behaviour is correct: OGMs are broadcast packets. In infrastructure mode, whatever broadcast packet a station sends gets to the AP which will re-broadcast it again. In this way every station gets it and from the batman-adv point of view it is like the packet was received directly from the other sta (the MAC addresses in the packet say so). Therefore you must enable ap-isolation in hostapd if you want batman-adv to behave as you expect.

I'd like to stress the point that batman-adv is not "confused" as you describe it in your blog post. Antonio explained it already: In infrastructure mode all station _are_ neighbors.

Cheers, Marek