On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek >>> Is there a reliable way of determining that an underlying interface is >>> a bridge? >> >> https://github.com/jech/babeld/blob/master/kernel_netlink.c#L723 >> >> However, this only works for the Linux software bridge. It doesn't work >> for the hardware switches built into your favourite router, and of course >> it doesn't work for switches connected over Ethernet, which is what the >> WLAN-SI people are using. > > I was basically wondering if there was something like an igmp message that > asked > if this "wire" was bridged to anything. > > The default outside of babel towers and the yurtlab is to bridge wifi > to ethernet.
Maybe something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Layer_Discovery_Protocol Not sure how well it is supported by consumer grade switches. Henning Rogge _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
