[Olsr-users] Olsrd cann't ping two-hops node - Nexus7

[Henning Rogge]

Good to hear this... :)

Henning

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Abubakr Ali <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> Hi Henning Rogge,
>
> I've finally figured out what was the problem. It was simply the "Iptables
> Rules" that were configured, in the Nexus7, to drop all the forwarded
> packets. Now, after adding another rule that enables node2 to forward packet
> that aren't meant to it, the pinging request from node1 to node3 and the
> pinging reply is done through node2 smoothly.
> My next step is to test the network throughput. Therefore, I am building an
> android app as packets-generator, wish me luck ;-)
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Ali, Abubakr
>
>
>
> On 21 October 2013 07:19, Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/18/2013 05:05 PM, Abubakr Ali wrote:
>> > Thanks Henning Rogge for your reply ..
>> >
>> > Regards the route from node3 to node1, and at the beginning where all
>> > the three tablets are close to, and in-range of, each others, I see the
>> > following in the //proc/net/route/ :
>> >
>> > Destination==node1
>> > Gateway==node1,
>> > and ...
>> > Destination==node2
>> > Gateway==node2,
>> >
>> > when changing the location of the tablets, then the routes change as
>> > follow:
>> >
>> > Destination==node1
>> > Gateway==node2,
>> > and ...
>> > Destination==node2
>> > Gateway==node2,
>> >
>> > accordingly, this mean that the HELLO and TC msgs are exchanged (i.e.:
>> > the number-of-hops was calculated and that node1 is reachable through
>> > node2), right ?
>>
>> If this is true in both directions on all three nodes, your should be
>> able to ping node3 from node1 (at least from the routing table point of
>> view).
>>
>> You can use tcpdump
>>
>> > you sounded like if the default-values in the .conf file do not do me
>> > any favor and that I have to hard-coded all the default-values myself,
>> > is that true ?
>>
>> The problem with huge config files with lots of "default" values is that
>> its easy to overlook a changed value. I would suggest only adding things
>> to the configuration file that are not using the default value.
>>
>> Henning Rogge
>>
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