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* batman-adv: B.A.T.M.A.N V - make sure iface is reactivated upon NETDEV_UP eventAntonio Quartulli2016-04-291-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At the moment there is no explicit reactivation of an hard-interface upon NETDEV_UP event. In case of B.A.T.M.A.N. IV the interface is reactivated as soon as the next OGM is scheduled for sending, but this mechanism does not work with B.A.T.M.A.N. V. The latter does not rely on the same scheduling mechanism as its predecessor and for this reason the hard-interface remains deactivated forever after being brought down once. This patch fixes the reactivation mechanism by adding a new routing API which explicitly allows each algorithm to perform any needed operation upon interface re-activation. Such API is optional and is implemented by B.A.T.M.A.N. V only and it just takes care of setting the iface status to ACTIVE Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* batman-adv: B.A.T.M.A.N. V - implement bat_neigh_print APILinus Luessing2016-02-291-0/+55
| | | | | | | | | | | | Lists all neighbours detected by the Echo Locating Protocol (ELP) and their throughput metric. Initially Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in Ascom (Switzerland) AG. Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
* batman-adv: B.A.T.M.A.N. V - implement bat_orig_print APIAntonio Quartulli2016-02-291-0/+105
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* batman-adv: B.A.T.M.A.N. V - implement neighbor comparison API callsAntonio Quartulli2016-02-291-0/+38
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* batman-adv: ELP - compute the metric based on the estimated throughputAntonio Quartulli2016-02-291-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In case of wireless interface retrieve the throughput by querying cfg80211. To perform this call a separate work must be scheduled because the function may sleep and this is not allowed within an RCU protected context (RCU in this case is used to iterate over all the neighbours). Use ethtool to retrieve information about an Ethernet link like HALF/FULL_DUPLEX and advertised bandwidth (e.g. 100/10Mbps). The metric is updated each time a new ELP packet is sent, this way it is possible to timely react to a metric variation which can imply (for example) a neighbour disconnection. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* batman-adv: add throughput override attribute to hard_ifacesAntonio Quartulli2016-02-291-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This attribute is exported to user space to disable the link throughput auto-detection by setting a fixed value. The throughput override value is used when batman-adv is computing the link throughput towards a neighbour. If the value is set to 0 then batman-adv will try to detect the throughput by itself. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* batman-adv: OGMv2 - add basic infrastructureAntonio Quartulli2016-02-291-3/+48
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the initial implementation of the new OGM protocol (version 2). It has been designed to work on top of the newly added ELP. In the previous version the OGM protocol was used to both measure link qualities and flood the network with the metric information. In this version the protocol is in charge of the latter task only, leaving the former to ELP. This means being able to decouple the interval used by the neighbor discovery from the OGM broadcasting, which revealed to be costly in dense networks and needed to be relaxed so leading to a less responsive routing protocol. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
* batman-adv: ELP - creating neighbor structuresLinus Luessing2016-02-291-1/+22
| | | | | | | | | Initially developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in Ascom (Switzerland) AG. Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
* batman-adv: ELP - adding basic infrastructureLinus Luessing2016-02-291-0/+74
The B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol originally only used a single message type (called OGM) to determine the link qualities to the direct neighbors and spreading these link quality information through the whole mesh. This procedure is summarized on the BATMAN concept page and explained in details in the RFC draft published in 2008. This approach was chosen for its simplicity during the protocol design phase and the implementation. However, it also bears some drawbacks: * Wireless interfaces usually come with some packet loss, therefore a higher broadcast rate is desirable to allow a fast reaction on flaky connections. Other interfaces of the same host might be connected to Ethernet LANs / VPNs / etc which rarely exhibit packet loss would benefit from a lower broadcast rate to reduce overhead. * It generally is more desirable to detect local link quality changes at a faster rate than propagating all these changes through the entire mesh (the far end of the mesh does not need to care about local link quality changes that much). Other optimizations strategies, like reducing overhead, might be possible if OGMs weren't used for all tasks in the mesh at the same time. As a result detecting local link qualities shall be handled by an independent message type, ELP, whereas the OGM message type remains responsible for flooding the mesh with these link quality information and determining the overall path transmit qualities. Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in Ascom (Switzerland) AG. Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
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