[OLSR-users] how olsr manages broadcast

[loloster]

Hi seba

seba wrote:
> Immagine that my statically configured IP addresses are in the subnet 192.168.30.0 (255.255.255.0)
> My question is:  if a node broadcasts a packet (so dest IP=192.168.30.255) does the other nodes will forward the packet to all the nodes in the network?
no: broadcast packets MUST NOT be relayed to the same interface they 
were received from
see rfc 922 for the rule and discussion here : 
http://www.olsr.org/pipermail/olsr-users/2004-December/751819.html
and here : 
http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2004-July/054386.html

>  -> I would like that this event didn't occur!
> How can I configure OLSR to avoid the flooding?
>   
forwarding data packet is not an OLSRD task but an OS task (olsrd build 
routes only)

my 2€ cents

laurent