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commit 726e7095ddb8e70cbc81ef44023838c17d60894d Author: Linus L��ssing linus.luessing@c0d3.blue Date: Thu May 12 13:26:30 2022 +0000

doc: batman-adv/Multicast-Packet-Type

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diff --git a/batman-adv/Multicast-Packet-Type.textile b/batman-adv/Multicast-Packet-Type.textile index b860aa4d..3782ac63 100644 --- a/batman-adv/Multicast-Packet-Type.textile +++ b/batman-adv/Multicast-Packet-Type.textile @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -h1. Multicast Packet Type +h1. DRAFT - Multicast Packet Type + +_This is a draft and not implemented at the moment._

h2. Brief

@@ -94,9 +96,32 @@ h2. Implementation Tasks #

-TODOs: +h2. Open questions, known issues, TODOs + +h3. #Num Dests size

* 1 or 2 bytes for #Num Dests for Address X? * If limit of entries were reached, we could just send another mcast packet? (~6*256 = 1536). Or do we want to be prepared for jumbo frames? + +h3. Non ideal splits + +If a packet with n destinations gets too large for the MTU then batman-adv would/should/could try to split it into m packets with n/3 destinations each. where m <= mcast_fanout. + +However when splitting like this then such the splitting node does not know the best sorting into these m packets. Another node will likely later need to split again due to different next hops for the destinations in a packet. + +A batman-adv node currently cannot anticipate this for optimized splitting, as it does not know the full topology. Which would potentially lead to more transmissions than necessary. + + +h3. Fragmentation / MTUs: + +On transit a forwarding node might have an interface with a smaller MTU than the node which originated the packet. A node could try to split a packet into multiple packets with less destinations. However if the payload data is larger than the interface MTU already then it would still not fit. And the batman-adv fragmentation code won't be able to look into and split within a multicast packet type header. + +Workaround A): + +By default only apply multicast packet type if resulting packet is smaller than 1280 (minimum IPv6 packet size) or even 576 (minimum accepeted IPv4 datagram size?). Maybe add a configuration option, which defaults to 576 bytes? While in practice configuring it to 1280 should usually be fine these days with IPv6 capable networks. + +Solution B) + +Later ideally the fragmentation code would be able to split the payload within a multicast packet type, while leaving multicast packet type headers in tact. A node should still forward packets if due to this splitting the mcast-fanout limit were violated, to avoid packet loss. \ No newline at end of file