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batman-adv: forward late OGMs from best next hop
When a packet is received from another node first and later from the best next hop, this packet is dropped. However the first OGM was sent with the BATADV_NOT_BEST_NEXT_HOP flag and thus dropped by neighbors. The late OGM from the best neighbor is then dropped because it is a duplicate. If this situation happens constantly, a node might end up not forwarding the "valid" OGMs anymore, and nodes behind will starve from not getting valid OGMs. Fix this by refining the duplicate checking behaviour: The actions should depend on whether it was a duplicate for a neighbor only or for the originator. OGMs which are not duplicates for a specific neighbor will now be considered in batadv_iv_ogm_forward(), but only actually forwarded for the best next hop. Therefore, late OGMs from the best next hop are forwarded now and not dropped as duplicates anymore. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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