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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH v5 2/6] batman-adv: speed up dat by
	snooping received ip traffic
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Are new clients (Mac) not already spread as info on the network? So couldn't=
 we not just snoop dhcp traffic on gateways and spread the info about acknow=
ledged IPs as well?

> Am 25.06.2016 um 12:04 schrieb Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>:
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>> On Friday 10 June 2016 13:11:00 Andreas Pape wrote:
>> Speeding up dat address lookup is achieved by snooping all incoming ip
>> traffic. This especially increases the propability in bla setups that
>> a gateway into a common backbone network already has a fitting dat entry
>> to answer incoming ARP requests directly coming from the backbone
>> network thus further reducing ARP traffic in the mesh.
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>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Pape <apape@phoenixcontact.com>
>> ---
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> Marking this as rejected in patchwork due to the conceptual problems point=
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> out by Matthias + Linus [1].
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> @Marek, I hope this helps to reduce the number of patches you have to go=20=

> through in patchwork. But please feel free to change it back when you thin=
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> differently about it.
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> Kind regards,
>    Sven
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> [1] https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2016-June/015738.htm=
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