Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 06/15] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages

2012-05-24 Thread Simon Wunderlich
Hey David, thanks for your answer, On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:54:57AM -0400, David Miller wrote: From: Sven Eckelmann s...@narfation.org Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 07:34:12 +0200 _You_ were the person that declined the pull request because _you_ wanted to rewrite the ARP handling. So

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 06/15] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages

2012-05-23 Thread Simon Wunderlich
Hello David, we are a little bit in a pinch here - the DAT feature sent with this patchset was developed for a long time, and we need your decision to move on as more and more patches depend on it: * should we rewrite DAT to use our own ARP table/backend or * can we use the ARP neighbor table

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 06/15] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages

2012-05-23 Thread David Miller
From: Sven Eckelmann s...@narfation.org Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 07:34:12 +0200 _You_ were the person that declined the pull request because _you_ wanted to rewrite the ARP handling. So _you_ are the person that has the insight in _your_ plans. Either _you_ tell us what is _your_ problem with

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 06/15] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages

2012-05-17 Thread Marek Lindner
David, On Tuesday, May 01, 2012 08:59:04 David Miller wrote: From: Antonio Quartulli or...@autistici.org Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 00:22:30 +0200 However this patch also contains a procedure which queries the neigh table in order to understand whether a given host is known or not.

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 06/15] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages

2012-05-12 Thread Marek Lindner
David, On Tuesday, May 01, 2012 08:59:04 David Miller wrote: From: Antonio Quartulli or...@autistici.org Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 00:22:30 +0200 However this patch also contains a procedure which queries the neigh table in order to understand whether a given host is known or not. Would it

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 06/15] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages

2012-04-30 Thread David Miller
From: Antonio Quartulli or...@autistici.org Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:57:38 +0200 In case of an ARP message going in or out the soft_iface, it is intercepted and a special action is performed. In particular the DHT helper functions previously implemented are used to store all the ARP

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 06/15] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages

2012-04-30 Thread Antonio Quartulli
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 01:05:55 -0400, David Miller wrote: From: Antonio Quartulli or...@autistici.org Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:57:38 +0200 In case of an ARP message going in or out the soft_iface, it is intercepted and a special action is performed. In particular the DHT helper

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 06/15] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages

2012-04-30 Thread David Miller
From: Antonio Quartulli or...@autistici.org Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 00:22:30 +0200 However this patch also contains a procedure which queries the neigh table in order to understand whether a given host is known or not. Would it be possible to do that in another way (Without manually touching the

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 06/15] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages

2012-04-29 Thread Antonio Quartulli
In case of an ARP message going in or out the soft_iface, it is intercepted and a special action is performed. In particular the DHT helper functions previously implemented are used to store all the ARP entries belonging to the network in order to provide a fast and unicast lookup instead of the

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 06/15] batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add snooping functions for ARP messages

2012-04-25 Thread Antonio Quartulli
In case of an ARP message going in or out the soft_iface, it is intercepted and a special action is performed. In particular the DHT helper functions previously implemented are used to store all the ARP entries belonging to the network in order to provide a fast and unicast lookup instead of the