Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH v2] batman-adv: Add multicast-to-unicast support for multiple targets

Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 02:44:52PM CET, linus.luessing@c0d3.blue wrote:

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 01:46:35PM +0100, Sven Eckelmann wrote:

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On Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:43:01 CET Linus Lüssing wrote:

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+What: /sys/class/net/<mesh_iface>/mesh/multicast_fanout +Date: Feb 2019 +Contact: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue +Description:

•            Defines the maximum number of packet copies that may
  

•           be generated for a multicast-to-unicast conversion.
  

•           Once this limit is exceeded distribution will fall
  

•           back to broadcast.
  

No new sysfs config files.

Why? The bridge for instance does the same.

I would recommend to add new options only to netlink to force userspace tools to use it and eventually phase-out sysfs usage..