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2011-09-08batman-adv: rename all instances of batman_packet to batman_ogm_packetMarek Lindner
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>
2011-08-22batman-adv: detect clients connected through a 802.11 deviceAntonio Quartulli
Clients connected through a 802.11 device are now marked with the TT_CLIENT_WIFI flag. This flag is also advertised with the tt announcement. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-07-07batman-adv: keep local table consistency for further TT_RESPONSEAntonio Quartulli
To keep transtable consistency among all the nodes, an originator must not send not yet announced clients within a full table TT_RESPONSE. Instead, deleted client have to be kept in the table in order to be sent within an immediate TT_RESPONSE. In this way all the nodes in the network will always provide the same response for the same request. All the modification are committed at the next ttvn increment event. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-07-05batman-adv: unify flags for tt_change/tt_local_entry/tt_global_entryAntonio Quartulli
The tt_local_entry structure now has a 'flags' field. This helps to unify the flags format to all the client related structures (tt_global_entry and tt_change). The 'never_purge' field is now encoded in the 'flags' one. To optimise the usage of this field, its length has been increased to 16bit in order to use the eight leading bits (from 0 to 7) to store flags that have to be sent on the wire, while the eight ending ones are used for local computation only. Moreover 'enum tt_change_flags' is now called 'enum tt_client_flags' and the defined values apply to the tt_local_entry, tt_global_entry and the tt_change 'flags' field. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2011-06-20batman-adv: improved roaming mechanismAntonio Quartulli
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>
2011-06-20batman-adv: improved client announcement mechanismAntonio Quartulli
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>
2011-06-20batman-adv: Unify the first 3 bytes in each packetAntonio Quartulli
The amount of duplicated code in the receive and routing code can be reduced when all headers provide the packet type, version and ttl in the same first bytes. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-06-09batman-adv: Use enums for related constantsSven Eckelmann
CodingStyle "Chapter 12: Macros, Enums and RTL" recommends to use enums for several related constants. Internal states can be used without defining the actual value, but all values which are visible to the outside must be defined as before. Normal values are assigned as usual and flags are defined by shifts of a bit. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-08batman-adv: Remove multiline comments from line endingSven Eckelmann
It is slightly irritating that comments after a long line span over multiple lines without any code. It is easier to put them before the actual code and reduce the number of lines which the eye has to read. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-05-08batman-adv: rename everything from *hna* into *tt* (translation table)Antonio Quartulli
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>
2011-01-31batman-adv: Update copyright yearsSven Eckelmann
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-31batman-adv: Calculate correct size for merged packetsSven Eckelmann
The routing algorithm must be able to decide if a fragment can be merged with the missing part and still be passed to a forwarding interface. The fragments can only differ by one byte in case that the original payload had an uneven length. In that situation the sender has to inform all possible receivers that the tail is one byte longer using the flag UNI_FRAG_LARGETAIL. The combination of UNI_FRAG_LARGETAIL and UNI_FRAG_HEAD flag makes it possible to calculate the correct length for even and uneven sized payloads. The original formula missed to add the unicast header at all and forgot to remove the fragment header of the second fragment. This made the results highly unreliable and only useful for machines with large differences between the configured MTUs. Reported-by: Russell Senior <russell@personaltelco.net> Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2011-01-16batman-adv: Use "__attribute__" shortcut macrosSven Eckelmann
Linux 2.6.21 defines different macros for __attribute__ which are also used inside batman-adv. The next version of checkpatch.pl warns about the usage of __attribute__((packed))). Linux 2.6.33 defines an extra macro __always_unused which is used to assist source code analyzers and can be used to removed the last existing __attribute__ inside the source code. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2010-12-16net: Add batman-adv meshing protocolSven Eckelmann
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>