2 # B.A.T.M.A.N meshing protocol
6 tristate "B.A.T.M.A.N. Advanced Meshing Protocol"
12 B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is
13 a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The
14 networks may be wired or wireless. See
15 https://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space
18 config BATMAN_ADV_BATMAN_V
19 bool "B.A.T.M.A.N. V protocol (experimental)"
20 depends on BATMAN_ADV && CFG80211=y || (CFG80211=m && BATMAN_ADV=m)
23 This option enables the B.A.T.M.A.N. V protocol, the successor
24 of the currently used B.A.T.M.A.N. IV protocol. The main
25 changes include splitting of the OGM protocol into a neighbor
26 discovery protocol (Echo Location Protocol, ELP) and a new OGM
27 Protocol OGMv2 for flooding protocol information through the
28 network, as well as a throughput based metric.
29 B.A.T.M.A.N. V is currently considered experimental and not
30 compatible to B.A.T.M.A.N. IV networks.
33 bool "Bridge Loop Avoidance"
34 depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET
37 This option enables BLA (Bridge Loop Avoidance), a mechanism
38 to avoid Ethernet frames looping when mesh nodes are connected
39 to both the same LAN and the same mesh. If you will never use
40 more than one mesh node in the same LAN, you can safely remove
41 this feature and save some space.
44 bool "Distributed ARP Table"
45 depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET
48 This option enables DAT (Distributed ARP Table), a DHT based
49 mechanism that increases ARP reliability on sparse wireless
50 mesh networks. If you think that your network does not need
51 this option you can safely remove it and save some space.
58 This option enables network coding, a mechanism that aims to
59 increase the overall network throughput by fusing multiple
60 packets in one transmission.
61 Note that interfaces controlled by batman-adv must be manually
62 configured to have promiscuous mode enabled in order to make
64 If you think that your network does not need this feature you
65 can safely disable it and save some space.
67 config BATMAN_ADV_MCAST
68 bool "Multicast optimisation"
69 depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET && !(BRIDGE=m && BATMAN_ADV=y)
72 This option enables the multicast optimisation which aims to
73 reduce the air overhead while improving the reliability of
76 config BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG
77 bool "B.A.T.M.A.N. debugging"
81 This is an option for use by developers; most people should
82 say N here. This enables compilation of support for
83 outputting debugging information to the kernel log. The
84 output is controlled via the module parameter debug.