[Olsr-users] BMF-Plugin in UnicastPromiscuous mode

[Erik Tromp]

Hi Joerg,

I guess you're right. I will make this optimization in the next release.

Thanks for the sharp observation!

Best regards,
Erik


> Hello all (esp. Erik),
> I'm wondering about something I noticed in the bmf-1.6.1 plugin:
> 
> In UnicastPromiscuous it creates for every OLSR interface 
> both an AF_INET and an AF_PACKET socket and listens for 
> incoming packets on both sockets (both CreateListeningSocket 
> and CreateEncapsulateSocket call AddDescriptorToInputSet). 
> Doesn't this mean that the plugin sees a BMF-Packet addressed 
> to this node twice (on purpose, not just by accident)?
> One copy should fail in the duplicate packet detection, but I 
> thought this was not part of the normal operation and only 
> meant to prevent loops.
> 
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> Regards
>        Joerg
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