1c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann# 2c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann# B.A.T.M.A.N meshing protocol 3c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann# 4c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann 5c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmannconfig BATMAN_ADV 6c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann tristate "B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced Meshing Protocol" 717224474SAntonio Quartulli depends on NET 8a73105b8SAntonio Quartulli select CRC16 995a066d8SSven Eckelmann select LIBCRC32C 10c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann default n 1110e3cd6aSAntonio Quartulli help 12c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is 13c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The 14c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann networks may be wired or wireless. See 157b5e7396SSven Eckelmann https://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space 16c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann tools. 17c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann 18d6f94d91SLinus Luessingconfig BATMAN_ADV_BATMAN_V 19d6f94d91SLinus Luessing bool "B.A.T.M.A.N. V protocol (experimental)" 200566df30SLinus Lüssing depends on BATMAN_ADV && !(CFG80211=m && BATMAN_ADV=y) 21d6f94d91SLinus Luessing default n 22d6f94d91SLinus Luessing help 23d6f94d91SLinus Luessing This option enables the B.A.T.M.A.N. V protocol, the successor 24d6f94d91SLinus Luessing of the currently used B.A.T.M.A.N. IV protocol. The main 25d6f94d91SLinus Luessing changes include splitting of the OGM protocol into a neighbor 26d6f94d91SLinus Luessing discovery protocol (Echo Location Protocol, ELP) and a new OGM 27d6f94d91SLinus Luessing Protocol OGMv2 for flooding protocol information through the 28d6f94d91SLinus Luessing network, as well as a throughput based metric. 29d6f94d91SLinus Luessing B.A.T.M.A.N. V is currently considered experimental and not 30d6f94d91SLinus Luessing compatible to B.A.T.M.A.N. IV networks. 31d6f94d91SLinus Luessing 327a5cc242SSimon Wunderlichconfig BATMAN_ADV_BLA 337a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich bool "Bridge Loop Avoidance" 3417224474SAntonio Quartulli depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET 357a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich default y 367a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich help 377a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich This option enables BLA (Bridge Loop Avoidance), a mechanism 387a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich to avoid Ethernet frames looping when mesh nodes are connected 397a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich to both the same LAN and the same mesh. If you will never use 407a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich more than one mesh node in the same LAN, you can safely remove 417a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich this feature and save some space. 4210e3cd6aSAntonio Quartulli 4317224474SAntonio Quartulliconfig BATMAN_ADV_DAT 4417224474SAntonio Quartulli bool "Distributed ARP Table" 4517224474SAntonio Quartulli depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET 4617224474SAntonio Quartulli default n 4717224474SAntonio Quartulli help 4817224474SAntonio Quartulli This option enables DAT (Distributed ARP Table), a DHT based 4917224474SAntonio Quartulli mechanism that increases ARP reliability on sparse wireless 5017224474SAntonio Quartulli mesh networks. If you think that your network does not need 5117224474SAntonio Quartulli this option you can safely remove it and save some space. 5217224474SAntonio Quartulli 53d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøllconfig BATMAN_ADV_NC 54d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll bool "Network Coding" 55d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll depends on BATMAN_ADV 56d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll default n 57d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll help 58d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll This option enables network coding, a mechanism that aims to 59d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll increase the overall network throughput by fusing multiple 60d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll packets in one transmission. 61d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll Note that interfaces controlled by batman-adv must be manually 62d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll configured to have promiscuous mode enabled in order to make 63d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll network coding work. 64d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll If you think that your network does not need this feature you 65d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll can safely disable it and save some space. 66d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll 67c5caf4efSLinus Lüssingconfig BATMAN_ADV_MCAST 68c5caf4efSLinus Lüssing bool "Multicast optimisation" 69687937abSLinus Lüssing depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET && !(BRIDGE=m && BATMAN_ADV=y) 70c5caf4efSLinus Lüssing default n 71c5caf4efSLinus Lüssing help 72c5caf4efSLinus Lüssing This option enables the multicast optimisation which aims to 73c5caf4efSLinus Lüssing reduce the air overhead while improving the reliability of 74c5caf4efSLinus Lüssing multicast messages. 75c5caf4efSLinus Lüssing 76dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmannconfig BATMAN_ADV_DEBUGFS 77dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmann bool "batman-adv debugfs entries" 7810e3cd6aSAntonio Quartulli depends on BATMAN_ADV 7995353956SMarkus Pargmann depends on DEBUG_FS 80dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmann default y 81dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmann help 82dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmann Enable this to export routing related debug tables via debugfs. 83dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmann The information for each soft-interface and used hard-interface can be 84dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmann found under batman_adv/ 85dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmann 86dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmann If unsure, say Y. 87dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmann 88dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmannconfig BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG 89dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmann bool "B.A.T.M.A.N. debugging" 90dc1cbd14SSven Eckelmann depends on BATMAN_ADV_DEBUGFS 9110e3cd6aSAntonio Quartulli help 92c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann This is an option for use by developers; most people should 93c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann say N here. This enables compilation of support for 94c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann outputting debugging information to the kernel log. The 95c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann output is controlled via the module parameter debug. 96