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commit 1be3a75fd40999ffaed76122c05df944627d1bd7 Author: Marek Lindner mareklindner@neomailbox.ch Date: Sat Dec 19 12:21:44 2009 +0000
doc: batman-adv/Quick-start-guide
1be3a75fd40999ffaed76122c05df944627d1bd7 batman-adv/Quick-start-guide.textile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/batman-adv/Quick-start-guide.textile b/batman-adv/Quick-start-guide.textile index d4180513..e94bb25d 100644 --- a/batman-adv/Quick-start-guide.textile +++ b/batman-adv/Quick-start-guide.textile @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ batctl if }}} to verify its status. Check the system log for hints in case it does not behave as you expect.
-Despite being up, those interfaces that have been added using batctl don't need any ip-address configured as batman-adv is operating on layer 2 (which is a common mistake by people who are more familiar with the 'old' batmand or other layer 3 routing protcols)! Those interfaces are bridge-interfaces - you just shouldn't (have to) use those plain interfaces for routing anymore. +Despite being up, those interfaces that have been added using batctl don't need any ip-address configured as batman-adv is operating on layer 2 (which is a common mistake by people who are more familiar with the 'old' batmand or other layer 3 routing protocols)! Those interfaces are bridge-interfaces - you just must not use those plain interfaces for routing anymore.
=== bat0 === So where are we going to send data packets to if not to those interfaces we have given batman-adv? That's where the virtual bat0 interface (created by batman-adv) is getting into the game. Usually you are going to assign IP adresses to this one - either manually or via dhcpv4 / avahi autoconfiguration / dhcpv6 / ipv6 autoconfiguration. Any packet that enters this interface will be examined by the batman-adv kernel module for its destination mac-adress and will be forwarded with the help of B.A.T.M.A.N.'s routing voodoo then, so that finally, magically it pops out at the right destination's bat0 interface :).