[Olsr-dev] broadcast packet filtering

[Hannes Gredler]

hi joe,

IMO the basic idea of the bmf plugin (piggyback dataplane traffic on top
of control-plane traffic) is way broken, and for the reasons you have
been giving (as per your example below), it may even become destabilizing.

i have been mulling with henning over the ideas to program real
multicast forwarding state (/64 (S,G) for IPv4 and /256 (S, G) for
IPv6 into the kernel FIB. Every node shall publish the multicast
groups it wants to receive via protocol extensions. During the SPF
run we could compute the distribution tree and program the kernel FIB,
such that data-plane and control-plane stays seperate.

the idea is nothing new, much stuff will be derived from MOSPF

http://www.javvin.com/protocolMOSPF.html

/hannes

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 02:26:45PM -0400, Joe Gio wrote:
| 
| It has been noticed that nodes generating high broadcast traffic (bmf 
| encap packets for instance) will "loose" some incoming messages even 
| though they are clearly visible being received using tcp dump on the 
| wireless interface.
| 
| The problem is that "broadcast " packets sent from the local node are 
| looped back to any listening sockets on the same box as is the case in 
| bmf, so bmf has to process (discard) its own broadcasts. Since bmf is 
| already busy reading packets of the wired interface the wireless receive 
| queue starts to get backed quickly so any "real" packets received from 
| other nodes get dropped in the socket buff before bmf can process. This 
| can be confirmed using the netstat command  "while sleep 1; do netstat 
| -a 2<&1 | grep 50698; done"
| 
| This command filters out the nodes own broadcast packets using ip tables 
| on the gateworks armeb board.
| 
| ADDR=`ifconfig ath0 | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}'`
| 
| BCAST=`ifconfig ath0 | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $3}'`
| 
| ADDR=`echo $ADDR | sed -e s/:/\ /g | awk '{print $2}'`
| 
| BCAST=`echo $BCAST | sed -e s/:/\ /g | awk '{print $2}'`
| 
| iptables -I INPUT -p udp --src $ADDR --dst $BCAST -j DROP
| 
| Joe Gio