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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2] batman-adv: fix visualization output
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On Friday, May 11, 2012 03:47:30 Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> 1st, implementations [1-3] aren't very configurable, and [4], an
> implementation by Intel, is hard to configure and *huge* (stripped
> binary ~400KB). Most of the implementations don't support announcing
> IPv6 addresses (I'm not sure which anymore), although that isn't really
> an important feature for me, as I'd use it mostly to announce hostnames
> for the MAC addresses, but I consider software that only supports IPv4
> as deprecated. Also, most of these projects seem to be dead for years.
> 
> 2nd, I think without batman-adv specific extensions LLDP isn't very
> useful, as the LLDP daemon only cares about the bat0/bridge MAC
> addresses, and not the hardif MAC addresses which are visible in the
> vis. The softif MAC addresses are shown in the vis as TT records, of
> course, but as one can't really discern between the adresses of the node
> itself and those of other clients on the bridge, it's rather useless in
> my opinion.

I understand all reason except for the last one. What are you trying to 
achieve that you need to auto-discover all batman-adv interfaces ? Are you 
trying to replace vis ? 
As far as I understood Martin was trying to point you to a protocol which 
broadcasts arbitrary data on layer2 (similar to mDNS on layer3).

Regards,
Marek