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Open-Mesh: Batman-adv 2019.2 released

Added by Sven Eckelmann almost 6 years ago

May 23th, 2019. Today the B.A.T.M.A.N. team publishes the May 2019 update to batman-adv, batctl and alfred! To improve the overhead in networks with multicast listeners, adjustments for the multicast optimization were implemented which enable multicast-to-unicast conversion. batman-adv can now update the DAT entry timeouts on incoming ARP replies to reduce the broadcast overhead even further. The sysfs integration in batman-adv is now optional and can be turned off during the compilation. A system without the sysfs support also requires additional changes in batctl which are shipped now as part of this release. Also the deprecated debugfs log support in batctl was dropped together with the support of MAC-to-originator translation via debugfs. As usual, this release also contains various bugfixes and code cleanups.

As the kernel module always depends on the Linux kernel it is compiled against, it does not make sense to provide binaries on our website. As usual, you will find the signed tarballs in our download section:

https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2019.2/

Thanks

Thanks to all people sending in patches:

and to all those that supported us with good advice or rigorous testing:

batman-adv

  • support latest kernels (3.16 - 5.2)
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • implement multicast-to-unicast support for multiple targets
  • deprecate sysfs support and make it optional
  • refresh DAT entry timeouts on incoming ARP Replies
  • bugs squashed:
    • fix multicast tt/tvlv worker locking
    • drop roam tvlv handler when unregistering mesh interface

batctl

  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • add multicast_fanout setting subcommand
  • implement netlink based support for remaining sysfs-only features
  • drop support for deprecated log command support
  • remove non-netlink support for translating MAC addresses to originators

alfred

  • synchronization of batman-adv netlink header

Happy routing,

The B.A.T.M.A.N. team

Open-Mesh: Batman-adv 2019.1 released

Added by Sven Eckelmann about 6 years ago

Mar 28th, 2019. Today the B.A.T.M.A.N. team publishes the March 2019 update to batman-adv, batctl and alfred! The distributed hash table now parses DHCP packets to speed up the learning process of new IPv4 addresses. This should reduce the number of required ARP packets when a client just received a new IP address and then wants to start to transfer data via this router. Also batman-adv and batctl were modified to exchange configuration settings via generic netlink instead of sysfs. As usual, this release also contains various bugfixes and code cleanups.

As the kernel module always depends on the Linux kernel it is compiled against, it does not make sense to provide binaries on our website. As usual, you will find the signed tarballs in our download section:

https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2019.1/

Thanks

Thanks to all people sending in patches:

and to all those that supported us with good advice or rigorous testing:

batman-adv

  • support latest kernels (3.16 - 5.1)
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • implement meshif, hardif and vlan interface via netlink
  • snoop DHCP ACKs to improve DAT cache efficiency
  • bugs squashed:
    • avoid potential reference counter underflows and use-after free errors for several objects
    • fix GCC warning when B.A.T.M.A.N. V is build in but cfg80211 is not available
    • reject too small VLAN packets before they are processed further

batctl

  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • introduce support for batadv meshif, hardif and vlan configuration via netlink
  • replace multicast_mode with multicast_forceflood settings subcommand
  • add hop_penalty setting subcommand

alfred

  • synchronization of batman-adv netlink header

Happy routing,

The B.A.T.M.A.N. team

Open-Mesh: Batman-adv 2019.0 released

Added by Sven Eckelmann about 6 years ago

Feb 1th, 2019. Today the B.A.T.M.A.N. team publishes the February 2019 update to batman-adv, batctl and alfred! This release decouples the tracing functionality from the (deprecated) debugfs functionality. Most of the netlink functionality now also reports inconsistency problems during the dumping of larger number of entries. As usual, this release also contains various bugfixes and code cleanups.

As the kernel module always depends on the Linux kernel it is compiled against, it does not make sense to provide binaries on our website. As usual, you will find the signed tarballs in our download section:

https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2019.0/

Thanks

Thanks to all people sending in patches:

and to all those that supported us with good advice or rigorous testing:

batman-adv

  • support latest kernels (3.16 - 5.0)
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • allow to enable debug tracing without full batman-adv debugfs support
  • enable inconsistency reporting for most netlink dump commands
  • bugs squashed:
    • avoid unnecessary kernel warning (panic) during detection of interface loops
    • work around incorrect ethernet header offset in transmit code path

batctl

  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • add gateway selection manpage section for B.A.T.M.A.N. V
  • bugs squashed:
    • re-integrate support for translation table unicast/multicast filter
    • avoid incorrect warning about turned off mesh interface when debugfs support is not enabled in batman-adv

Happy routing,

The B.A.T.M.A.N. team

Open-Mesh: Batman-adv 2018.4 released

Added by Sven Eckelmann over 6 years ago

Nov 14th, 2018. Today the B.A.T.M.A.N. team publishes the November 2018 update to batman-adv, batctl and alfred! This release contains mostly code refactorization in batctl to ease more netlink development in the future. Alfred's IPv4 implementation was polished to better handle missing MAC addresses in the ARP neighbor table. The batman-adv kernel modules now yields better results for TX throughput tests and allows to receive its debug messages via the Linux kernel's tracepoint infrastructure. Accessing the debugfs files will now create warning messages that a different method of retrieving the information should be used. As usual, this release also contains various bugfixes and code cleanups.

As the kernel module always depends on the Linux kernel it is compiled against, it does not make sense to provide binaries on our website. As usual, you will find the signed tarballs in our download section:

https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2018.4/

Thanks

Thanks to all people sending in patches:

and to all those that supported us with good advice or rigorous testing:

batman-adv

  • support latest kernels (3.16 - 4.20)
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • improve tx performance by avoiding unnecessary locking
  • add help messages regarding deprecation of debugfs files
  • support for debug message tracepoints
  • explicit ELP padding to allow TVLVs in the future
  • bugs squashed:
    • fix skb_over_panic for merged fragments with small tailroom

batctl

  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • correction of manpage spelling errors
  • new subcommand "event" to receive netlink notifications
  • infrastructure to disable commands during build time
  • drop of the legacy vis subcommands

alfred

  • bugs squashed:
    • fixed detection of own IPv4 packets
    • use manual IPv4 ARP requests to retrieve MAC of neighbors

Happy routing,

The B.A.T.M.A.N. team

Open-Mesh: Batman-adv 2018.3 released

Added by Sven Eckelmann over 6 years ago

Sep 14th, 2018. Today the B.A.T.M.A.N. team publishes the September 2018 update to batman-adv, batctl and alfred! This release contains mostly bugfixes and code cleanups.

As the kernel module always depends on the Linux kernel it is compiled against, it does not make sense to provide binaries on our website. As usual, you will find the signed tarballs in our download section:

https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2018.3/

Thanks

Thanks to all people sending in patches:

and to all those that supported us with good advice or rigorous testing:

batman-adv

  • support latest kernels (3.16 - 4.19)
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • enable the DAT by default for the in-tree Linux module
  • bugs squashed
    • fix segfault when writing to sysfs files under batman_adv/ with CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG enabled
    • avoid information leakage in probe ELP packets
    • adjust reference counters when queue_work fails
    • prevent duplicated entries in various lists

Happy routing,

The B.A.T.M.A.N. team

Open-Mesh: Batman-adv 2018.2 released

Added by Sven Eckelmann over 6 years ago

Jul 17th, 2018. Today the B.A.T.M.A.N. team publishes the July 2018 update to batman-adv, batctl and alfred! This release drops the support for Linux versions before v3.16 (oldest non-EOL Linux kernel). This makes it possible again to build the kernel in-source without the extra "build/" directory. debugfs is no longer enabled in the standard build configuration but B.A.T.M.A.N. V will be build by default. The latter was also modified to no longer accept the ethtool specific link speeds to virtual interfaces - a requirement in the future for the tpmeter based link speed detection of VPN links. The multicast optimization is now more robust and will no longer disable itself when a node without the multicast optimization feature is detected. Also several bugfixes and code cleanups are included in this version.

As the kernel module always depends on the Linux kernel it is compiled against, it does not make sense to provide binaries on our website. As usual, you will find the signed tarballs in our download section:

https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2018.2/

Thanks

Thanks to all people sending in patches:

and to all those that supported us with good advice or rigorous testing:

batman-adv

  • support latest kernels (3.16 - 4.18)
  • dropped support for kernels < 3.16 (note the removed build directory)
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • avoid old nodes disabling multicast optimizations completely
  • disable ethtool based B.A.T.M.A.N. V speed detection for virtual interfaces
  • enable B.A.T.M.A.N. V compilation by default
  • disable debugfs support by default
  • bugs squashed:
    • fix TT sync flags for intermediate TT responses
    • avoid race in TT TVLV allocator helper
    • prevent TT request storms by not sending inconsistent TT TVLVs
    • fix best gw refcnt after netlink dump
    • adjust debugfs paths for interfaces after a namechange
    • fix single entry TT non-sync flag storage
    • fix multicast TT issues with bogus ROAM flags
    • work around insufficient memory initialization in cfg80211's station info

Happy routing,

The B.A.T.M.A.N. team

Open-Mesh: Batman-adv 2018.1 released

Added by Sven Eckelmann almost 7 years ago

Apr 25th, 2018. Today the B.A.T.M.A.N. team publishes the April 2018 update to batman-adv, batctl and alfred! This release adds the netlink support for the distributed arp table cache and the multicast flags. Also several bugfixes, code cleanups and code documentation updates are included in this version.

As the kernel module always depends on the Linux kernel it is compiled against, it does not make sense to provide binaries on our website. As usual, you will find the signed tarballs in our download section:

https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2018.1/

Thanks

Thanks to all people sending in patches:

and to all those that supported us with good advice or rigorous testing:

batman-adv

  • support latest kernels (3.2 - 4.17)
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • add DAT cache and multicast flags netlink support
  • avoid redundant multicast TT entries
  • bugs squashed:
    • update data pointers after skb_cow()
    • fix header size check in batadv_dbg_arp()
    • fix skbuff rcsum on packet reroute
    • fix multicast-via-unicast transmission with AP isolation
    • fix packet loss for broadcasted DHCP packets to a server
    • fix multicast packet loss with a single WANT_ALL_IPV4/6 flag

batctl

  • synchronization of batman-adv netlink and packet headers
  • add DAT cache and multicast flags netlink support
  • disable translation support for non-unicast mac addresses

alfred

  • synchronization of batman-adv netlink header

Happy routing,

The B.A.T.M.A.N. team

Open-Mesh: The B.A.T.M.A.N. project endorses "Mesh is in the air"

Added by Simon Wunderlich about 7 years ago

The B.A.T.M.A.N. project endorses "Mesh is in the air" - this year mesh up of the "Wireless Battle of the Mesh" and "Wireless Community Weekend".

We keep the approach to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks and combine it with the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the yearly Freifunk community get together. The mix becomes a global gathering of wifi tech experts, mesh developers and community networkers that join the event to hack, test, discuss, explain, learn and barbecue at c-base, Berlins famous hack-space-station.

If you are a mesh networking enthusiast, community activist, have an interest in wifi or dynamic routing protocols, you can't miss this event! So check out our continuously updated information about the event at https://www.wireless-meshup.org

The battlemesh is free of charge and open for all, every year we strive to keep participation costs low by negotiating deals for accommodation and food.

This year the event will take place from Monday 7th to Sunday 13th of May, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The event is locally organized by Freifunk, Germany's community wireless network.

The B.A.T.M.A.N. project endorses and supports the Battle of the Mesh v11 because of the efforts made by its community to advance the field of wireless mesh networking and foster the development of grassroots community networks.

The B.A.T.M.A.N. project will support the event by:

  • help to promote the event
  • numerous members of the B.A.T.M.A.N. community have already confirmed their attendance
  • help organizing the event
  • help setting up the testbed for protocol testing
  • will organize workshops to discuss integration and new features with other communities
  • test our new algorithm B.A.T.M.A.N. V

Many other communities endorse and support the Wireless Battle of The Mesh v11, an up to date list of the endorsers of the Battlemesh 11 can be found at the shared Wireless Mesh-up website.

If you are interested in coming join the event's Mailing List to stay up to date with the latest news.

Open-Mesh: Batman-adv 2018.0 released

Added by Sven Eckelmann about 7 years ago

Feb 27th, 2018. Today the B.A.T.M.A.N. team publishes the February 2018 update to batman-adv, batctl and alfred! This release contains mostly bugfixes, code cleanups and documentation updates.

The in-tree version also got support for unicast batman-adv packets in the flow dissector. This can be used to spread the receive processing to different CPU cores with the help of RPS. Users of the out-of-tree module are advised to manually add the patchset to their target systems kernel.

As the kernel module always depends on the Linux kernel it is compiled against, it does not make sense to provide binaries on our website. As usual, you will find the signed tarballs in our download section:

https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2018.0/

Thanks

Thanks to all people sending in patches:

and to all those that supported us with good advice or rigorous testing:

batman-adv

  • support latest kernels (3.2 - 4.16)
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • mark licenses clearer, change UAPI netlink header from ISC to MIT
  • bugs squashed:
    • fix packet checksum handling in receive path
    • fix handling of large number of interfaces
    • fix netlink dumping of gateways and BLA claims+backbones

batctl

  • synchronization of batman-adv netlink and packet headers
  • mark licenses clearer, change batman-adv UAPI header from ISC to MIT
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring

alfred

  • synchronization of batman-adv netlink and packet headers
  • mark licenses clearer, change batman-adv UAPI header from ISC to MIT
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring

Happy routing,

The B.A.T.M.A.N. team

Open-Mesh: Batman-adv 2017.4 released

Added by Sven Eckelmann over 7 years ago

Dec 05th, 2017. Today the B.A.T.M.A.N. team publishes the December 2017 update to batman-adv, batctl and alfred! This release contains mostly bugfixes, code cleanups and documentation updates.

As the kernel module always depends on the Linux kernel it is compiled against, it does not make sense to provide binaries on our website. As usual, you will find the signed tarballs in our download section:

https://downloads.open-mesh.org/batman/releases/batman-adv-2017.4/

Thanks

Thanks to all people sending in patches:

and to all those that supported us with good advice or rigorous testing:

batman-adv

  • support latest kernels (3.2 - 4.15)
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • documentation cleanup
  • bugs squashed:
    • avoid spurious warnings from bat_v neigh_cmp implementation
    • fix check of gateway availability in B.A.T.M.A.N. V
    • fix locking for bidirectional TQ check counters
    • remove leak of stack bits in fragmentation header priority

batctl

  • synchronization of batman-adv netlink header
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • documentation cleanup
  • bugs squashed:
    • improve error handling for libnl related errors
    • add checks for various allocation errors

alfred

  • synchronization of batman-adv netlink header
  • coding style cleanups and refactoring
  • documentation cleanup
  • bugs squashed:
    • only query debugfs when netlink failed
    • handle allocation errors in hashtable iterator

Happy routing,

The B.A.T.M.A.N. team

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