On Friday 26 February 2016 14:18:54 Andreas Pape wrote:
> Additional dropping of unicast packets received from another backbone gw of
> the same backbone network before being forwarded to the same backbone again
> is necessary. It was observed in a test setup that in rare cases these
> frames lead
On Friday 26 February 2016 14:18:54 Andreas Pape wrote:
> @@ -896,6 +898,19 @@ int batadv_recv_unicast_packet(struct sk_buff *skb,
> }
> }
>
> + /* If this is a unicast packet from another backgone gw,
> + * drop it.
> + */
Additional dropping of unicast packets received from another backbone gw of
the same backbone network before being forwarded to the same backbone again
is necessary. It was observed in a test setup that in rare cases these
frames lead to looping unicast traffic backbone->mesh->backbone.
