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authorSimon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@open-mesh.com>2016-03-12 10:49:33 +0100
committerAntonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>2016-05-10 12:26:45 +0200
commitcd9c7bfbbae81bbe75de585ac57b1097e86cf109 (patch)
treea496d3fd3a24cd7b3647535a6a581aabc48f65aa /net/batman-adv/main.h
parentbatman-adv: Create batman soft interfaces within correct netns. (diff)
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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: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@open-mesh.com> [sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv/main.h')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/main.h b/net/batman-adv/main.h
index 07a6042d0ad6..090c6f0f2398 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/main.h
+++ b/net/batman-adv/main.h
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@
#define BATADV_BLA_BACKBONE_TIMEOUT (BATADV_BLA_PERIOD_LENGTH * 6)
#define BATADV_BLA_CLAIM_TIMEOUT (BATADV_BLA_PERIOD_LENGTH * 10)
#define BATADV_BLA_WAIT_PERIODS 3
+#define BATADV_BLA_LOOPDETECT_PERIODS 6
+#define BATADV_BLA_LOOPDETECT_TIMEOUT 3000 /* 3 seconds */
#define BATADV_DUPLIST_SIZE 16
#define BATADV_DUPLIST_TIMEOUT 500 /* 500 ms */
@@ -142,10 +144,12 @@ enum batadv_uev_action {
BATADV_UEV_ADD = 0,
BATADV_UEV_DEL,
BATADV_UEV_CHANGE,
+ BATADV_UEV_LOOPDETECT,
};
enum batadv_uev_type {
BATADV_UEV_GW = 0,
+ BATADV_UEV_BLA,
};
#define BATADV_GW_THRESHOLD 50