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authorLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>2018-12-30 16:52:53 +0100
committerSimon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>2018-12-30 18:14:42 +0100
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batman-adv: Snoop DHCPACKs for DAT
In a 1000 nodes mesh network (Freifunk Hamburg) we can still see 30KBit/s of ARP traffic (equalling about 25% of all layer two specific overhead, remaining after some filtering) flooded through the mesh. These 30KBit/s are mainly ARP Requests from the gateways / DHCP servers. By snooping DHCPACKs we can learn about MAC/IP address pairs in the DHCP range without relying on ARP. This patch is in preparation to eliminate the need for mesh wide message flooding for IPv4 address resolution. Also this allows to quickly update a MAC/IP pair at least in the DHT when DHCP reassigns an IP address to a new host. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
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