On 01/06/15 17:20, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > When a node running DAT receives an ARP request from the LAN for the > first time, it is likely that this node will request the ARP entry > through the distributed ARP table (DAT) in the mesh. > > Once a DAT reply is received the asking node must check if the MAC > address for which the IP address has been asked is local. If it is, the > node must drop the ARP reply bceause the client should have replied on > its own locally. > > Forwarding this reply means fooling any L2 bridge (e.g. Ethernet > switches) lying between the batman-adv node and the LAN. This happens > because the L2 bridge will think that the client sending the ARP reply > lies somewhere in the mesh, while this node is sitting in the same LAN. > > Reported-by: Simon Wunderlich <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]>
Although this patch is for the maint branch it was (unintentionally) implemented on top of master. Please use the "git am -3 $filename" when applying this patch on top of maint. Cheers, -- Antonio Quartulli
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