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* batman-adv: register batman ogm receive function during protocol initMarek Lindner2012-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | The B.A.T.M.A.N. IV OGM receive function still was hard-coded although it is a routing protocol specific function. This patch takes advantage of the dynamic packet handler registration to remove the hard-coded function calls. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
* batman-adv: remove old bridge loop avoidance codeSimon Wunderlich2012-04-11
| | | | | | | | The functionality is to be replaced by an improved implementation, so first clean up. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
* batman-adv: Update copyright yearsSven Eckelmann2012-02-16
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: agglomerate all batman iv ogm processing functions in a single fileMarek Lindner2011-09-08
| | | | | | | In preparation of the upcoming improved routing algorithm the code based has to be re-organized to allow choosing the routing algorithm at compile time. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: rename all instances of batman_packet to batman_ogm_packetMarek Lindner2011-09-08
| | | | | | | The follow-up routing code changes are going to introduce additional routing packet types which make this distinction necessary. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: improved roaming mechanismAntonio Quartulli2011-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the current client announcement implementation, in case of roaming, an update is triggered on the new AP serving the client. At that point the new information is spread around by means of the OGM broadcasting mechanism. Until this operations is not executed, no node is able to correctly route traffic towards the client. This obviously causes packet drops and introduces a delay in the time needed by the client to recover its connections. A new packet type called ROAMING_ADVERTISEMENT is added to account this issue. This message is sent in case of roaming from the new AP serving the client to the old one and will contain the client MAC address. In this way an out-of-OGM update is immediately committed, so that the old node can update its global translation table. Traffic reaching this node will then be redirected to the correct destination utilising the fresher information. Thus reducing the packet drops and the connection recovery delay. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* batman-adv: improved client announcement mechanismAntonio Quartulli2011-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The client announcement mechanism informs every mesh node in the network of any connected non-mesh client, in order to find the path towards that client from any given point in the mesh. The old implementation was based on the simple idea of appending a data buffer to each OGM containing all the client MAC addresses the node is serving. All other nodes can populate their global translation tables (table which links client MAC addresses to node addresses) using this MAC address buffer and linking it to the node's address contained in the OGM. A node that wants to contact a client has to lookup the node the client is connected to and its address in the global translation table. It is easy to understand that this implementation suffers from several issues: - big overhead (each and every OGM contains the entire list of connected clients) - high latencies for client route updates due to long OGM trip time and OGM losses The new implementation addresses these issues by appending client changes (new client joined or a client left) to the OGM instead of filling it with all the client addresses each time. In this way nodes can modify their global tables by means of "updates", thus reducing the overhead within the OGMs. To keep the entire network in sync each node maintains a translation table version number (ttvn) and a translation table checksum. These values are spread with the OGM to allow all the network participants to determine whether or not they need to update their translation table information. When a translation table lookup is performed in order to send a packet to a client attached to another node, the destination's ttvn is added to the payload packet. Forwarding nodes can compare the packet's ttvn with their destination's ttvn (this node could have a fresher information than the source) and re-route the packet if necessary. This greatly reduces the packet loss of clients roaming from one AP to the next. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* batman-adv: Add const type qualifier for pointersSven Eckelmann2011-05-30
| | | | | | | | batman-adv uses pointers which are marked as const and should not violate that type qualifier by passing it to functions which force a cast to the non-const version. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* batman-adv: rename everything from *hna* into *tt* (translation table)Antonio Quartulli2011-05-08
| | | | | | | | To be coherent, all the functions/variables/constants have been renamed to the TranslationTable style Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* batman-adv: Remove unused hdr_size variable in route_unicast_packet()Linus Lüssing2011-03-05
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@ascom.ch> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: rename batman_if struct to hard_ifaceMarek Lindner2011-03-05
| | | | Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: protect bonding with rcu locksSimon Wunderlich2011-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | bonding / alternating candidates need to be secured by rcu locks as well. This patch therefore converts the bonding list from a plain pointer list to a rcu securable lists and references the bonding candidates. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: Remove duplicate types.h inclusionsLinus Lüssing2011-02-11
| | | | | | | | | types.h is included by main.h, which is included at the beginning of any other c-file anyway. Therefore this commit removes those duplicate inclussions. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@ascom.ch> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* batman-adv: Update copyright yearsSven Eckelmann2011-01-31
| | | | Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* batman-adv: remove unused parametersSimon Wunderlich2011-01-31
| | | | | | | | Some function parameters are obsolete now and can be removed. Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* net: Add batman-adv meshing protocolSven Eckelmann2010-12-16
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space tools. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>