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* Staging: batman-adv: checkpatch cleanup of commentsSven Eckelmann2010-09-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | checkpatch now detects the start of a comment and warns about usage of multiple spaces at the beginning of a line. We have to replace the ' ' in multiple lines comments by ' * ' to fix it. Checkpatch also wants a comment after a definition of a spinlock_t which describes what it protects. It is currently not possible to add it before the actual struct which includes the spinlock. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Staging: batman-adv: layer2 unicast packet fragmentationAndreas Langer2010-09-051-6/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements a simple layer2 fragmentation to allow traffic exchange over network interfaces with a MTU smaller than 1500 bytes. The fragmentation splits the big packets into two parts and marks the frames accordingly. The receiving end buffers the packets to reassemble the orignal packet before passing it to the higher layers. This feature makes it necessary to modify the batman-adv encapsulation for unicast packets by adding a sequence number, flags and the originator address. This modifcation is part of a seperate packet type for fragemented packets to keep the original overhead as low as possible. This patch enables the feature by default to ensure the data traffic can travel through the network. But it also prints a warning to notify the user about the performance implications. Note: Fragmentation should be avoided at all costs since it has a dramatic impact on the performance, especially when it comes wifi networks. Instead of a single packet, 2 packets have to be sent! Not only valuable airtime is wasted but also packetloss decreases the throughput. A link with 50% packetloss and fragmentation enabled is pretty much unusable. Signed-off-by: Andreas Langer <an.langer@gmx.de> [sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Staging: batman-adv: Add include guards to all header filesSven Eckelmann2010-07-081-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | We include different header files indirectly to the same source file. This creates weird compiler errors from time to time. Include guards should prefend that functions/variables/... gets redefined by itself. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Staging: batman-adv: record route for ICMP messagesDaniel Seither2010-06-221-0/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The standard layer 3 ping utility can use the record route (RR) option of IP to collect route data for sent ping messages (ping -R). This patch introduces comparable functionality for batman-adv ICMP messages. The patch adds a second batman ICMP packet format (icmp_packet_rr) such that up to 17 MAC addresses can be recorded (sufficient for up to 8 hops per direction). When no RR is wanted, the old icmp_packet without the RR overhead can be sent. Signed-off-by: Daniel Seither <post@tiwoc.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> [sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Staging: batman-adv: Add bonding functionalitySimon Wunderlich2010-06-221-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces bonding functionality to batman-advanced, targeted for the 0.3 release. As we are able to route the payload traffic as we want, we may use multiple interfaces on multihomed hosts to transfer data to achieve higher bandwidth. This can be considered as "light Multi Path Routing" for single hop connections. To detect which interfaces of a peer node belong to the same host, a new flag PRIMARIES_FIRST_HOP is introduced. This flag is set on the first hop of OGMs of the primary (first) interface, which is broadcasted on all interfaces. When receiving such an OGM, we can learn which interfaces belong to the same host (by assigning them to the primary originator). Bonding works by sending packets in a round-robin fashion to the available interfaces of a neighbor host, if multiple interfaces are available. The neighbor interfaces should be almost equally good to reach. To avoid interferences (i.e. sending on the same channel), only neighbor interfaces with different mac addresses and different outgoing interfaces are considered as candidates. Bonding is deactivated by default, and can be activated by echo 1 > /sys/class/net/bat0/mesh/bonding for each individual node. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> [sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Staging: batman-adv: 32bit sequence number and TTL for broadcastsSimon Wunderlich2010-06-221-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes the sequence number range from 8 or 16 bit to 32 bit. This should avoid problems with the sequence number sliding window algorithm which we had seen in the past for broadcast floods or malicious packet injections. We can not assure 100% security with this patch, but it is quite an improvement over the old 16 bit sequence numbers: * expected window size can be increased (4096 -> 65536) * 64k packets in the right order would now be needed to cause a loop, which seems practically impossible. Furthermore, a TTL field has been added to the broadcast packet type, just to make sure. These changes required to increase the compatibility level once again. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> [sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Change atomic64_* back to atomic_*, Rework on top of current version] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Staging: batman-adv: Update copyright yearsSimon Wunderlich2010-05-111-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Staging: batman-adv: consistent spelling of "neighbors"Simon Wunderlich2010-03-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | we have written "neighbors", "neighbours" and bad spelled versions of this word, this patch should make it consistent. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* staging: batman-adv meshing protocolAndrew Lunn2009-12-111-0/+96
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. This is the first submission for inclusion in staging. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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