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 15c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space 16c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann tools. 17c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann 187a5cc242SSimon Wunderlichconfig BATMAN_ADV_BLA 197a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich bool "Bridge Loop Avoidance" 2017224474SAntonio Quartulli depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET 217a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich default y 227a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich help 237a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich This option enables BLA (Bridge Loop Avoidance), a mechanism 247a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich to avoid Ethernet frames looping when mesh nodes are connected 257a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich to both the same LAN and the same mesh. If you will never use 267a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich more than one mesh node in the same LAN, you can safely remove 277a5cc242SSimon Wunderlich this feature and save some space. 2810e3cd6aSAntonio Quartulli 2917224474SAntonio Quartulliconfig BATMAN_ADV_DAT 3017224474SAntonio Quartulli bool "Distributed ARP Table" 3117224474SAntonio Quartulli depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET 3217224474SAntonio Quartulli default n 3317224474SAntonio Quartulli help 3417224474SAntonio Quartulli This option enables DAT (Distributed ARP Table), a DHT based 3517224474SAntonio Quartulli mechanism that increases ARP reliability on sparse wireless 3617224474SAntonio Quartulli mesh networks. If you think that your network does not need 3717224474SAntonio Quartulli this option you can safely remove it and save some space. 3817224474SAntonio Quartulli 39*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøllconfig BATMAN_ADV_NC 40*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll bool "Network Coding" 41*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll depends on BATMAN_ADV 42*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll default n 43*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll help 44*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll This option enables network coding, a mechanism that aims to 45*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll increase the overall network throughput by fusing multiple 46*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll packets in one transmission. 47*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll Note that interfaces controlled by batman-adv must be manually 48*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll configured to have promiscuous mode enabled in order to make 49*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll network coding work. 50*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll If you think that your network does not need this feature you 51*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll can safely disable it and save some space. 52*d353d8d4SMartin Hundebøll 53c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmannconfig BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG 54c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann bool "B.A.T.M.A.N. debugging" 5510e3cd6aSAntonio Quartulli depends on BATMAN_ADV 5610e3cd6aSAntonio Quartulli help 57c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann This is an option for use by developers; most people should 58c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann say N here. This enables compilation of support for 59c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann outputting debugging information to the kernel log. The 60c6c8fea2SSven Eckelmann output is controlled via the module parameter debug. 61