On Monday, May 07, 2012 01:10:19 PM Matthias Schiffer wrote: > On 05/07/2012 08:40 AM, Marek Lindner wrote: > > If you wish to replace the mac addresses with readable name you can > > simply use a bat-hosts file to tell batctl which mac address should be > > replaced. Check the bat-hosts section in our batctl online manpage: > > http://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/manpages/batctl.8.html > > I know about bat-hosts, but this only works when the host displaying the > data knows all the MAC address/hostname mappings. For community meshs > like Freifunk networks it would be much nicer to allow each host to > supply its own hostname for vis in my opinion. I think one possibility > to add this without breaking compatiblity would be adding a hostname > record after the neighbor entries in the vis packets. > > It would be nice to convert the reserved field in the vis packet > stucture to a flags field for things like this, but AFAICS the current > code never sets this to zero, but this is a byte of uninitialized memory > that is sent over the network - but again, I might be overlooking things > as I'm not yet familar with the code.
Please don't think too much about the current packet types... there will be
changes anyway [1,2]
And maybe you could also use the DHT implementation [3] for your distributed
dns [4] (when you don't want to use already available stuff [5])
Kind regards,
Sven
[1] http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/BackwardsCompatibility
[2] http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/Packet-types
[3] http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/DistributedArpTable
[4] https://projects.universe-factory.net/projects/ngmrp/wiki
[5] http://www.multicastdns.org/
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