From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:58:03 +0200
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv: softif lan loop avoidance
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To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org, "Lew Pitcher (The Pitcher Digital Freehold)" <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>

On Monday 27 September 2010 02:25:52 DuncanSF wrote:
> Doing this defeats part of the purpose of running batman-adv on
> a LAN.  Picture the case where nodes have links between each
> other both on their wireless interfaces and through Homeplug
> adapters like the old Netgear XE102 Ethernet-to-Powerline bridge

It seems you somewhat misunderstood this new feature. As Donald already 
pointed out: It does not apply in your case.

But thanks a lot for all your questions because it made me aware of  the fact 
that my explanations were not clear enough. To address the matter I wrote a 
document: http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/bridge-loop-avoidance

Let me know if it answers the questions raised here and also pay close 
attention to the handcrafted fancy graphics. :-)

Regards,
Marek