Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH-maint-v2] batman-adv: check incoming packet type for bla

2012-07-05 Thread Marek Lindner
On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 20:38:19 Simon Wunderlich wrote: If the gateway functionality is used, some broadcast packets (DHCP requests) may be transmitted as unicast packets. As the bridge loop avoidance code now only considers the payload Ethernet destination, it may drop the DHCP request

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH-maint-v2] batman-adv: check incoming packet type for bla

2012-07-04 Thread Simon Wunderlich
If the gateway functionality is used, some broadcast packets (DHCP requests) may be transmitted as unicast packets. As the bridge loop avoidance code now only considers the payload Ethernet destination, it may drop the DHCP request for clients which are claimed by other backbone gateways, because