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commit 39909242eac08094887b6f5aecc6404fca9ff15f Author: Linus Lüssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue Date: Fri Apr 19 02:35:35 2024 +0000

doc: batman-adv/Multicast-Packet-Type

39909242eac08094887b6f5aecc6404fca9ff15f batman-adv/Multicast-Packet-Type.textile | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/batman-adv/Multicast-Packet-Type.textile b/batman-adv/Multicast-Packet-Type.textile index 20488c6f..0dd2b2eb 100644 --- a/batman-adv/Multicast-Packet-Type.textile +++ b/batman-adv/Multicast-Packet-Type.textile @@ -11,15 +11,15 @@ h2. Brief

Reduce number of packets / overhead by introducing a new batman-adv multicast packet type which is capable of holding multiple destination addresses.

-h2. Current State +h2. Previous State

batman-adv now has IP multicast group awareness. And with that can detect in advance which other nodes want to receive an IPv4/IPv6 multicast packet for a specific multicast destination/multicast group.

-The sender algorithm so far is simply either sending a packet via one batman-adv unicast packet for each interested destination node: +Before the sender algorithm so far was simply either sending a packet via one batman-adv unicast packet for each interested destination node:

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-Or when the number of destination is larger than 16 (default, configurable) it will fall back to using a single batman-adv broadcast packet: +Or when the number of destination is larger than 16 (default, configurable) it would fall back to using a single batman-adv broadcast packet:

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