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* batman-adv: Replace version info instead of appending themSven Eckelmann2011-07-051-7/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | The version number of modules build outside of the tree can get revision numbers added. This is useful to give hints about the revision of a distribution package and the used patchset. The prepended source number or branch name doesn't add any additional information which would help to identify problems and can therefore be omitted. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: gateway election code refactoringAntonio Quartulli2011-06-201-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | The gateway election mechanism has been a little revised. Now the gw_election is trigered by an atomic_t flag (gw_reselect) which is set to 1 in case of election needed, avoding to set curr_gw to NULL. 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: protect the local and the global trans-tables with rcuAntonio Quartulli2011-06-201-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | The local and the global translation-tables are now lock free and rcu protected. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* batman-adv: improved roaming mechanismAntonio Quartulli2011-06-201-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 Quartulli2011-06-201-6/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 Eckelmann2011-05-301-2/+2
| | | | | | | | 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 Quartulli2011-05-081-7/+7
| | | | | | | | 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 unnecessary hardif_list_lockSven Eckelmann2011-05-081-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hardif_list_lock is unneccessary because we already ensure that no multiple admin operations can take place through rtnl_lock. hardif_list_lock only adds additional overhead and complexity. Critical functions now check whether they are called with rtnl_lock using ASSERT_RTNL. It indirectly fixes the problem that orig_hash_del_if() expects that only one interface is deleted from hardif_list at a time, but hardif_remove_interfaces() removes all at once and then calls orig_hash_del_if(). Reported-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* batman-adv: multi vlan support for bridge loop detectionMarek Lindner2011-05-081-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | The bridge loop detection for batman-adv allows the bat0 interface to be bridged into an ethernet segment which other batman-adv nodes are connected to. In order to also allow multiple VLANs on top of the bat0 interface to be bridged into the ethernet segment this patch extends the aforementioned bridge loop detection. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* batman-adv: rename batman_if struct to hard_ifaceMarek Lindner2011-03-051-4/+4
| | | | Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: rename global if_list to hardif_listMarek Lindner2011-03-051-3/+3
| | | | | | | | Batman-adv works with "hard interfaces" as well as "soft interfaces". The new name should better make clear which kind of interfaces this list stores. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: remove orig_hash spinlockMarek Lindner2011-03-051-1/+0
| | | | Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: separate ethernet comparing calls from hash functionsMarek Lindner2011-03-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | Note: The function compare_ether_addr() provided by the Linux kernel requires aligned memory. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
* batman-adv: Remove duplicate types.h inclusionsLinus Lüssing2011-02-111-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | 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 Eckelmann2011-01-311-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
* net: Add batman-adv meshing protocolSven Eckelmann2010-12-161-0/+187
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>
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