Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv7 5/7] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages

On Monday, February 27, 2012 02:23:21 Antonio Quartulli wrote:

In case of an ARP message going in or out the soft_iface, it is intercepted and a special action is performed. In particular the DHT helper functions previously implemented are used to store all the ARP entries belonging to the network in order to provide a fast and unicast lookup instead of the classic broadcast flooding mechanism. Each node stores the entries it is responsible for (following the DHT rules) in its soft_iface ARP table. This makes it possible to reuse the kernel data structures and functions for ARP management.

Applied in revision 79b67f7.

Thanks, Marek