[Olsr-dev] why adding mac address in hello-msg

[work_xl]

I know the mac Bytes cost only a little for wifi.But I am working on a network in which some channels are so bad ,every Byte is important.I will try to set a constant metric for these channels and test the performance. On 2015-10-11 21:03 , Henning Rogge Wrote: What metric do you plan to use? the MAC tlv is not that much overhead because its only in the Hello messages, which are not flooded through the network. Henning P.S.: please reply to the mailing list if possible so that other people can learn from your experience and handling of the software. On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:45 PM, work_xl <(spam-protected)> wrote: > Thank you for your instruction.Now I can understand your "beautiful"mac > hack. I would not use DATmetric.So I will just cut this mac bytes for lower > radio channel cost and see what's going to happen. > > > On 2015-10-10 18:08 , Henning Rogge Wrote: > > Hi, > > very nice to see someone noticed this "slightly ugly hack". > > The DAT metric I use for NHDP/OLSRv2 uses linklayer information to get > the incoming datarate for each neighbor... unfortunately the nl80211 > subsystem (of course) does only know the MAC address of the neighbors, > so I need a way to know which MAC address corresponds to which NHDP > neighbor (which I know via IP address). > > The joke is that while every incoming (linklocal) multicast from the > neighbors contains the MAC address in the ethernet header, there is no > way in Linux to get the MAC address of an incoming UDP packet except > for using a raw socket... which are a headache to use with multicast > (e.g. creating the necessary IGMP/ICMPv6 multicast join/leave > messages). > > I still hope there is a better way to do this, but until someone > suggest one I just added the MAC address to each NHDP HELLO message as > an easy way to get the MAC address of the other sides interface. > > Henning > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:26 AM, work_xl <(spam-protected)> wrote: >> Hi, >> In nhdp plugin code,there is a msg tlv named NHDP_MSGTLV_MAC.Writer write >> it >> and reader read it.But I could not find it in both rfc6130 and rfc7181.On >> the other hand,I did not realize its function in the codes .So,why do we >> add >> this tlv？What could happen if I just remove it？ >> Best regards. >> >> xl >> >> -- >> Olsr-dev mailing list >> (spam-protected) >> https://lists.olsr.org/mailman/listinfo/olsr-dev Q
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