On Friday, May 11, 2012 03:47:30 Matthias Schiffer wrote: > 1st, implementations [1-3] aren't very configurable, and [4], an > implementation by Intel, is hard to configure and *huge* (stripped > binary ~400KB). Most of the implementations don't support announcing > IPv6 addresses (I'm not sure which anymore), although that isn't really > an important feature for me, as I'd use it mostly to announce hostnames > for the MAC addresses, but I consider software that only supports IPv4 > as deprecated. Also, most of these projects seem to be dead for years. > > 2nd, I think without batman-adv specific extensions LLDP isn't very > useful, as the LLDP daemon only cares about the bat0/bridge MAC > addresses, and not the hardif MAC addresses which are visible in the > vis. The softif MAC addresses are shown in the vis as TT records, of > course, but as one can't really discern between the adresses of the node > itself and those of other clients on the bridge, it's rather useless in > my opinion.
I understand all reason except for the last one. What are you trying to achieve that you need to auto-discover all batman-adv interfaces ? Are you trying to replace vis ? As far as I understood Martin was trying to point you to a protocol which broadcasts arbitrary data on layer2 (similar to mDNS on layer3). Regards, Marek
