[Babel-users] Detecting bridges

[Dave Taht]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
> Wrong thread?

Nope.

>
>> Is there a reliable way of determining that an underlying interface is
>> a bridge?
>
> https://github.com/jech/babeld/blob/master/kernel_netlink.c#L723
>
> However, this only works for the Linux software bridge.  It doesn't work
> for the hardware switches built into your favourite router, and of course
> it doesn't work for switches connected over Ethernet, which is what the
> WLAN-SI people are using.

I was basically wondering if there was something like an igmp message that asked
if this "wire" was bridged to anything.

The default outside of babel towers and the yurtlab is to bridge wifi
to ethernet.

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> -- Juliusz
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