On Friday, 11 September 2020 14:48:19 CEST Sven Eckelmann wrote: > On Friday, 11 September 2020 14:19:59 CEST Alessandro Bolletta wrote: > > So you mean that it is not feasible to create a (single) linux network > > interface that let me send traffic on the batman-adv network in an > > untagged or tagged way, though the same interface I mean? > > batman-adv is depending on the Linux code telling it what VLAN it should > handle (through ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid and ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid). So something > like the 8021q driver or the bridge code for vlans. Only when this was done, > it will also handle the addresses in TT. So no, bat0 is not enough to > transport something like an ethernet frame tagged as vlan1. You also need > bat0.1 (assuming this is the vlan interface for VID 1). But it is then not > really relevant for it whether the data was send through bat0.1 or was > somehow > else tagged and then put into bat0.
Btw. why are you now using VLANs on top of bat0 - weren't you trying before to
have multiple mesh clouds by using VLAN (or VLAN-like) technologies below
bat0?
Kind regards,
Sven
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