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Simon Wunderlich
07c48eca16 batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-08-27 20:15:33 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
6b5e971a28 batman-adv: Replace C99 int types with kernel type
(s|u)(8|16|32|64) are the preferred types in the kernel. The use of the
standard C99 types u?int(8|16|32|64)_t are objected by some people and even
checkpatch now warns about using them.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-08-25 00:12:17 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
a2f2b6cd41 batman-adv: Clarify calculation precedence for '&' and '?'
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-07 17:07:19 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
1e2c2a4fe4 batman-adv: Add required includes to all files
The header files could not be build indepdent from each other. This is
happened because headers didn't include the files for things they've used.
This was problematic because the success of a build depended on the
knowledge about the right order of local includes.

Also source files were not including everything they've used explicitly.
Instead they required that transitive includes are always stable. This is
problematic because some transitive includes are not obvious, depend on
config settings and may not be stable in the future.

The order for include blocks are:

 * primary headers (main.h and the *.h file of a *.c file)
 * global linux headers
 * required local headers
 * extra forward declarations for pointers in function/struct declarations

The only exceptions are linux/bitops.h and linux/if_ether.h in packet.h.
This header file is shared with userspace applications like batctl and must
therefore build together with userspace applications. The header
linux/bitops.h is not part of the uapi headers and linux/if_ether.h
conflicts with the musl implementation of netinet/if_ether.h. The
maintainers rejected the use of __KERNEL__ preprocessor checks and thus
these two headers are only in main.h. All files using packet.h first have
to include main.h to work correctly.

Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-07 17:07:19 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
36fd61cb80 batman-adv: Use common Jenkins Hash implementation
An unoptimized version of the Jenkins one-at-a-time hash function is used
and partially copied all over the code wherever an hashtable is used.
Instead the optimized version shared between the whole kernel should be
used to reduce code duplication and use better optimized code.

Only the DAT code must use the old implementation because it is used as
distributed hash function which has to be common for all nodes.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-07 17:07:17 +02:00
Markus Pargmann
f2d5cf2add batman-adv: main, batadv_compare_eth return bool
Declare the returntype of batadv_compare_eth as bool.
The function called inside this helper function
(ether_addr_equal_unaligned) also uses bool as return value, so there is
no need to return int.

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-03 15:57:24 +02:00
Markus Pargmann
e8ad3b1acf batman-adv: main, Convert is_my_mac() to bool
It is much clearer to see a bool type as return value than 'int' for
functions that are supposed to return true or false.

Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-03 15:57:24 +02:00
Marek Lindner
fc1f869366 batman-adv: checkpatch - spaces preferred around that '*'
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-05-29 10:13:37 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
9f6446c7f9 batman-adv: update copyright years for 2015
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-05-29 10:13:35 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
70e717762d batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2015-05-29 10:13:35 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
dcba6c9b45 batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-01-07 17:21:58 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
9687a31c84 batman-adv: checkpatch - No space is necessary after a cast
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-01-07 17:21:55 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
a0e2877505 batman-adv: kernel doc fixes for main.{c, h}
Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-01-07 17:21:54 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
71b75d0e95 batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-08-05 09:42:17 +02:00
André Gaul
23c4ec10f4 batman-adv: remove unnecessary logspam
This patch removes unnecessary logspam which resulted from superfluous
calls to net_ratelimit(). With the supplied patch, net_ratelimit() is
called after the loglevel has been checked.

Signed-off-by: André Gaul <gaul@web-yard.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-08-05 09:41:54 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
871d3d9fdf batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-05-18 15:04:00 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
3f2532fcde batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-03-22 09:18:59 +01:00
Linus Lüssing
ab49886e3d batman-adv: Add IPv4 link-local/IPv6-ll-all-nodes multicast support
With this patch a node may additionally perform the dropping or
unicasting behaviour for a link-local IPv4 and link-local-all-nodes
IPv6 multicast packet, too.

The extra counter and BATADV_MCAST_WANT_ALL_UNSNOOPABLES flag is needed
because with a future bridge snooping support integration a node with a
bridge on top of its soft interface is not able to reliably detect its
multicast listeners for IPv4 link-local and the IPv6
link-local-all-nodes addresses anymore (see RFC4541, section 2.1.2.2
and section 3).

Even though this new flag does make "no difference" now, it'll ensure
a seamless integration of multicast bridge support without needing to
break compatibility later.

Also note, that even with multicast bridge support it won't be possible
to optimize 224.0.0.x and ff02::1 towards nodes with bridges, they will
always receive these ranges.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-03-22 09:18:58 +01:00
Linus Lüssing
c5caf4ef34 batman-adv: Multicast Listener Announcements via Translation Table
With this patch a node which has no bridge interface on top of its soft
interface announces its local multicast listeners via the translation
table.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-03-22 09:18:56 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
8d90d775ca batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:20 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
e19f9759ed batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:19 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
89652331c0 batman-adv: split tq information in neigh_node struct
For the network wide multi interface optimization it is required to save
metrics per outgoing interface in one neighbor. Therefore a new type is
introduced to keep interface-specific information. This also requires
some changes in access and list management.

The compare and equiv_or_better API calls are changed to take the
outgoing interface into consideration.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:10 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
eceb22ae0b batman-adv: create helper function to get AP isolation status
The AP isolation status may be evaluated in different spots.
Create an helper function to avoid code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:45 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
9464d07188 batman-adv: mark a local client as isolated when needed
A client sending packets which mark matches the value
configured via sysfs has to be identified as isolated using
the TT_CLIENT_ISOLA flag.

The match is mask based, meaning that only bits set in the
mask are compared with those in the mark value.

If the configured mask is equal to 0 no operation is
performed.

Such flag is then advertised within the classic client
announcement mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:43 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
ebf38fb7ab batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimer
As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the
FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in
its documentation.

In this way it is easier to update it in case of future
changes.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:39 +01:00
Joe Perches
d9cd4fe5ef batadv: Slight optimization of batadv_compare_eth
Use the newly added generic routine ether_addr_equal_unaligned
to test if possibly unaligned to u16 Ethernet addresses are equal.

This slightly improves comparison time for systems with
CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-09 20:58:11 -05:00
Simon Wunderlich
15c33da6e8 batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-23 17:03:46 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
c43c981e50 batman-adv: add bat_neigh_is_equiv_or_better API function
Each routing protocol has its own metric semantic and
therefore is the protocol itself the only component able to
compare two metrics to check their "similarity".

This new API allows each routing protocol to implement its
own logic and make the external code protocol agnostic.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-23 15:33:11 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
1605278901 batman-adv: print the VID together with the TT entries
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19 15:11:25 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
c018ad3de6 batman-adv: add the VLAN ID attribute to the TT entry
To make the translation table code VLAN-aware, each entry
must carry the VLAN ID which it belongs to. This patch adds
such attribute to the related TT structures.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19 15:11:21 +02:00
Marek Lindner
bc58eeef74 batman-adv: update email address for Marek Lindner
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-19 14:53:48 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
c679ff8fb2 batman-adv: update email address for Simon Wunderlich
My university will stop email service for alumni in january 2014, please
use my new e-mail address instead.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2013-10-19 14:53:41 +02:00
Marek Lindner
411d6ed93a batman-adv: consider network coding overhead when calculating required mtu
The module prints a warning when the MTU on the hard interface is too
small to transfer payload traffic without fragmentation. The required
MTU is calculated based on the encapsulation header size. If network
coding is compild into the module its header size is taken into
account as well.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 17:17:09 +02:00
Martin Hundebøll
610bfc6bc9 batman-adv: Receive fragmented packets and merge
Fragments arriving at their destination are buffered for later merge.
Merged packets are passed to the main receive function as had they never
been fragmented.

Fragments are forwarded without merging if the MTU of the outgoing
interface is smaller than the size of the merged packet.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-12 11:58:34 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
9f4980e68b batman-adv: remove vis functionality
This is replaced by a userspace program, we don't need this
functionality to bloat the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:32 +02:00
Marek Lindner
ef26157747 batman-adv: tvlv - basic infrastructure
The goal is to provide the infrastructure for sending, receiving and
parsing information 'containers' while preserving backward
compatibility. TVLV (based on the commonly known Type Length Value
technique) was chosen as the format for those containers. Even if a
node does not know the tvlv type of a certain container it can simply
skip the current container and proceed with the next. Past experience
has shown features evolve over time, so a 'version' field was added
right from the start to allow differentiating between feature
variants - hence the name: T(ype) V(ersion) L(ength) V(alue).

This patch introduces the basic TVLV infrastructure:
 * register / unregister tvlv containers to be sent with each OGM
   (on primary interfaces only)
 * register / unregister callback handlers to be called upon
   finding the corresponding tvlv type in a tvlv buffer
 * unicast tvlv send / receive API calls

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Spyros Gasteratos <morfeas3000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:26 +02:00
Joe Perches
c3923b7a3d batman: Remove reference to compare_ether_addr
This function is being removed, rename the reference.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-03 22:34:48 -04:00
Simon Wunderlich
c00a072d3f batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-08-28 11:31:52 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
c54f38c9aa batman-adv: set skb priority according to content
The skb priority field may help the wireless driver to choose the right
queue (e.g. WMM queues). This should be set in batman-adv, as this
information is only available here.

This patch adds support for IPv4/IPv6 DS fields and VLAN PCP. Note that
only VLAN PCP is used if a VLAN header is present. Also initially set
TC_PRIO_CONTROL only for self-generated packets, and keep the priority
set by higher layers.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-08-28 11:31:50 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
6715fd3f05 batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-05-29 02:44:56 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
eb2deb6b39 batman-adv: change VID semantic in the BLA code
In order to make batman-adv fully vlan aware later, the
semantic used for variables storing the VLAN ID values has
to be changed in order to be adapted to the new one which
will be used batman-adv wide.

In particular, the VID has to be an "_unsigned_ short int"
and its 4 MSB will be used as a flag bitfield, while the
remaining 12 bits are used to store the real VID value

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
2013-05-29 02:44:55 +02:00
Matthias Schiffer
caf65bfcc5 batman-adv: send each broadcast only once on non-wireless interfaces
While it makes sense to send each broadcast thrice on 802.11 (WLAN) interfaces
as broadcasts are often unreliable on these, there is no reason to do so on
other interface types.

The increased the overhead can be harmful on low-bandwidth links like VPN
connections over slow internet lines, therefore it is better to reduce the
number of broadcast packets sent on non-wireless links to one.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-05-29 02:44:53 +02:00
David S. Miller
6e0895c2ea Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
	include/net/scm.h
	net/batman-adv/routing.c
	net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

The e{uid,gid} --> {uid,gid} credentials fix conflicted with the
cleanup in net-next to now pass cred structs around.

The be2net driver had a bug fix in 'net' that overlapped with the VLAN
interface changes by Patrick McHardy in net-next.

An IGB conflict existed because in 'net' the build_skb() support was
reverted, and in 'net-next' there was a comment style fix within that
code.

Several batman-adv conflicts were resolved by making sure that all
calls to batadv_is_my_mac() are changed to have a new bat_priv first
argument.

Eric Dumazet's TS ECR fix in TCP in 'net' conflicted with the F-RTO
rewrite in 'net-next', mostly overlapping changes.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell and Antonio Quartulli for help with several
of these merge resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-22 20:32:51 -04:00
Antonio Quartulli
fe8a93b951 batman-adv: make is_my_mac() check for the current mesh only
On a multi-mesh node (a node running more than one batman-adv
virtual interface) batadv_is_my_mac() has to check MAC
addresses of hard interfaces belonging to the current mesh
only.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-04-17 22:31:22 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
9998bb7300 batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:29:54 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
a4ac28c0d0 batman-adv: Allow to use rntl_link for device creation/deletion
The sysfs configuration interface of batman-adv to add/remove soft-interfaces
is not deadlock free and doesn't follow the currently common way to create new
virtual interfaces.

An additional interface though rtnl_link is introduced which provides easy device
creation/deletion with tools like "ip":

$ ip link add dev bat0 type batadv
$ ip link del dev bat0

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:27:34 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
3c12de9a5c batman-adv: network coding - code and transmit packets if possible
Before adding forward-skbs to the coding buffer, the buffer is searched
for a potential coding opportunity. If one is found, the two packets are
network coded and transmitted right away. If not, the forward-skb is
added to the buffer.

Network coded packets are transmitted with information about the two
receivers and the two coded packets. The first receiver is given by the
MAC header, while the second is given in the payload/bat-header. The
second receiver uses promiscuous mode to receive the packet and check
the second destination.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:50 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
d56b1705e2 batman-adv: network coding - detect coding nodes and remove these after timeout
To use network coding efficiently, a relay must know when neighbor nodes
are likely to have enough information to be able to decode a network
coded packet. This is detected by using OGMs from batman-adv to discover
when one neighbor is in range of another neighbor. The relay check the
TLL to detect when an OGM is forwarded from one neighbor by another
neighbor, and thereby knows that the two neighbors are in range and thus
overhear packets sent by each other.

This information is saved in the orig_node struct to be used when
searching for coding opportunities. Two lists are added to the
orig_node struct: One for neighbors that can hear the orig_node
(outgoing nc_nodes) and one for neighbors that the orig_node can hear
(incoming nc_nodes).

Information about nc_nodes is kept for 10 seconds and is available
through debugfs in batman_adv/nc_nodes to use when debugging network
coding.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:49 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
d353d8d4d9 batman-adv: network coding - add the initial infrastructure code
Network coding exploits the 802.11 shared medium to allow multiple
packets to be sent in a single transmission. In brief, a relay can XOR
two packets, and send the coded packet to two destinations. The
receivers can decode one of the original packets by XOR'ing the coded
packet with the other original packet. This will lead to increased
throughput in topologies where two packets cross one relay.

In a simple topology with three nodes, it takes four transmissions
without network coding to get one packet from Node A to Node B and one
from Node B to Node A:

 1.  Node A  ---- p1 --->  Node R                Node B
 2.  Node A                Node R  <--- p2 ----  Node B
 3.  Node A  <--- p2 ----  Node R                Node B
 4.  Node A                Node R  ---- p1 --->  Node B

With network coding, the relay only needs one transmission, which saves
us one slot of valuable airtime:

 1.  Node A  ---- p1 --->  Node R                Node B
 2.  Node A                Node R  <--- p2 ----  Node B
 3.  Node A  <- p1 x p2 -  Node R  - p1 x p2 ->  Node B

The same principle holds for a topology including five nodes. Here the
packets from Node A and Node B are overheard by Node C and Node D,
respectively. This allows Node R to send a network coded packet to save
one transmission:

   Node A                  Node B

    |     \              /    |
    |      p1          p2     |
    |       \          /      |
    p1       > Node R <       p2
    |                         |
    |         /      \        |
    |    p1 x p2    p1 x p2   |
    v       /          \      v
           /            \
   Node C <              > Node D

More information is available on the open-mesh.org wiki[1].

This patch adds the initial code to support network coding in
batman-adv. It sets up a worker thread to do house keeping and adds a
sysfs file to enable/disable network coding. The feature is disabled by
default, as it requires a wifi-driver with working promiscuous mode, and
also because it adds a small delay at each hop.

[1] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Catwoman

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:48 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
5ac2a17729 batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-01-19 21:18:13 +08:00