What exactly is the target of it? Just refresh the timer for arp entries? Why don't just ask the kernel arp table if it knows something bout the mac-address?
Every change should be pushed through the network by ne node which detected a new client, don't it? Best regards Ruben > Am 19.07.2016 um 08:59 schrieb Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org>: > >> On Dienstag, 19. Juli 2016 08:29:07 CEST Linus Lüssing wrote: >> What do you think about doing the same in batman-adv? That is, >> only updating, but not creating DAT cache entries from IP traffic. >> That should get rid of the main two concerns, accidentally >> snooping routed IP traffic and performance implications, shouldn't it? > > You have to snoop the traffic anyway and search in the dat cache for each(?) > packet. And the DAT cache is distributed. So why would it avoid the > performance implications? > > Kind regards, > Sven
