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Commit e35fd5ec authored by Simon Wunderlich's avatar Simon Wunderlich Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Staging: batman-adv: Add bonding functionality



This patch introduces bonding functionality to batman-advanced, targeted
for the 0.3 release. As we are able to route the payload traffic as we
want, we may use multiple interfaces on multihomed hosts to transfer data
to achieve higher bandwidth. This can be considered as "light Multi Path
Routing" for single hop connections.

To detect which interfaces of a peer node belong to the same host, a
new flag PRIMARIES_FIRST_HOP is introduced. This flag is set on the first hop
of OGMs of the primary (first) interface, which is broadcasted on all
interfaces. When receiving such an OGM, we can learn which interfaces
belong to the same host (by assigning them to the primary originator).

Bonding works by sending packets in a round-robin fashion to the available
interfaces of a neighbor host, if multiple interfaces are available. The
neighbor interfaces should be almost equally good to reach.

To avoid interferences (i.e. sending on the same channel), only neighbor
interfaces with different mac addresses and different outgoing interfaces
are considered as candidates.

Bonding is deactivated by default, and can be activated by

echo 1 > /sys/class/net/bat0/mesh/bonding

for each individual node.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: default avatarSven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent cf2d72ec
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