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The B.A.T.M.A.N. protocol originally only used a single
message type (called OGM) to determine the link qualities to
the direct neighbors and spreading these link quality
information through the whole mesh. This procedure is
summarized on the BATMAN concept page and explained in
details in the RFC draft published in 2008.
This approach was chosen for its simplicity during the
protocol design phase and the implementation. However, it
also bears some drawbacks:
* Wireless interfaces usually come with some packet loss,
therefore a higher broadcast rate is desirable to allow
a fast reaction on flaky connections.
Other interfaces of the same host might be connected to
Ethernet LANs / VPNs / etc which rarely exhibit packet
loss would benefit from a lower broadcast rate to reduce
overhead.
* It generally is more desirable to detect local link
quality changes at a faster rate than propagating all
these changes through the entire mesh (the far end of
the mesh does not need to care about local link quality
changes that much). Other optimizations strategies, like
reducing overhead, might be possible if OGMs weren't
used for all tasks in the mesh at the same time.
As a result detecting local link qualities shall be handled
by an independent message type, ELP, whereas the OGM message
type remains responsible for flooding the mesh with these
link quality information and determining the overall path
transmit qualities.
Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in
Ascom (Switzerland) AG.
Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
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# B.A.T.M.A.N meshing protocol
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config BATMAN_ADV
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tristate "B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced Meshing Protocol"
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depends on NET
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select CRC16
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select LIBCRC32C
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default n
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help
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B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is
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a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The
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networks may be wired or wireless. See
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https://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space
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tools.
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config BATMAN_ADV_BATMAN_V
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bool "B.A.T.M.A.N. V protocol (experimental)"
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depends on BATMAN_ADV
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default n
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help
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This option enables the B.A.T.M.A.N. V protocol, the successor
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of the currently used B.A.T.M.A.N. IV protocol. The main
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changes include splitting of the OGM protocol into a neighbor
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discovery protocol (Echo Location Protocol, ELP) and a new OGM
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Protocol OGMv2 for flooding protocol information through the
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network, as well as a throughput based metric.
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B.A.T.M.A.N. V is currently considered experimental and not
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compatible to B.A.T.M.A.N. IV networks.
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config BATMAN_ADV_BLA
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bool "Bridge Loop Avoidance"
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depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET
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default y
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help
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This option enables BLA (Bridge Loop Avoidance), a mechanism
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to avoid Ethernet frames looping when mesh nodes are connected
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to both the same LAN and the same mesh. If you will never use
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more than one mesh node in the same LAN, you can safely remove
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this feature and save some space.
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config BATMAN_ADV_DAT
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bool "Distributed ARP Table"
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depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET
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default n
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help
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This option enables DAT (Distributed ARP Table), a DHT based
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mechanism that increases ARP reliability on sparse wireless
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mesh networks. If you think that your network does not need
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this option you can safely remove it and save some space.
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config BATMAN_ADV_NC
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bool "Network Coding"
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depends on BATMAN_ADV
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default n
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help
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This option enables network coding, a mechanism that aims to
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increase the overall network throughput by fusing multiple
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packets in one transmission.
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Note that interfaces controlled by batman-adv must be manually
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configured to have promiscuous mode enabled in order to make
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network coding work.
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If you think that your network does not need this feature you
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can safely disable it and save some space.
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config BATMAN_ADV_MCAST
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bool "Multicast optimisation"
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depends on BATMAN_ADV
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default n
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help
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This option enables the multicast optimisation which aims to
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reduce the air overhead while improving the reliability of
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multicast messages.
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config BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG
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bool "B.A.T.M.A.N. debugging"
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depends on BATMAN_ADV
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depends on DEBUG_FS
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help
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This is an option for use by developers; most people should
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say N here. This enables compilation of support for
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outputting debugging information to the kernel log. The
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output is controlled via the module parameter debug.
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