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Commit cd9c7bfb authored by Simon Wunderlich's avatar Simon Wunderlich Committed by Antonio Quartulli
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batman-adv: add detection for complex bridge loops



There are network setups where the current bridge loop avoidance can't
detect bridge loops. The minimal setup affected would consist of two
LANs and two separate meshes, connected in a ring like that:

   A...(mesh1)...B
   |             |
 (LAN1)        (LAN2)
   |             |
   C...(mesh2)...D

Since both the meshes and backbones are separate, the bridge loop
avoidance has not enough information to detect and avoid the loop
in this case. Even if these scenarios can't be fixed easily,
these kind of loops can be detected.

This patch implements a periodic check (running every 60 seconds for
now) which sends a broadcast frame with a random MAC address on
each backbone VLAN. If a broadcast frame with the same MAC address
is received shortly after on the mesh, we know that there must be a
loop and report that incident as well as throw an uevent to let others
handle that problem.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@open-mesh.com>
[sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version]
Signed-off-by: default avatarSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAntonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
parent 2cd45a06
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