Commit 02233e0c authored Oct 17, 2012 by Linus Lüssing Committed by Antonio Quartulli Jan 12, 2013

batman-adv: Do not add multicast MAC addresses to translation table



The current translation table mechanism is not suitable for multicast
addresses and we are currently flooding such frames anyway.

Therefore this patch prevents multicast MAC addresses being added to the
translation table.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

parent 56917443

net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ static int batadv_interface_tx(struct sk_buff *skb,
		goto dropped;

		/* Register the client MAC in the transtable */
		if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(ethhdr->h_source))
		batadv_tt_local_add(soft_iface, ethhdr->h_source, skb->skb_iif);

		/* don't accept stp packets. STP does not help in meshes.

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