On Monday, June 01, 2015 17:29:57 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]> > --- > > Properly base this patch on top of maint. > > > distributed-arp-table.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Applied in revision 9bbd794. Thanks, Marek
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