<div>use a newer olsrd version (e.g. 0.6.1 is a current one),. <br>all 0.5.x wasn't very stable, maybe except the latest 0.5.6-Rx<br><br></div><div>(but hmm, i'm not 100% sure if the hemu code is still in 0.6.x)</div>
<div><br></div><div>but even 0.5.4 "might" scale to thousands,.. (depending on your cpu and ram limits) they where definitely used (somewhat reliable) in meshes of several hundred nodes,..<br><br>but they are buggy, an will segfault from time to time,.. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div>p.s what is your goal intention?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Lo, Caleb K. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clo@mitre.org">clo@mitre.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi everybody,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> I’m running olsrd-0.5.4, and I’m trying to simulate a large network using the olsr_switch application. I’ve tried to set up a large network in host-emulation mode using the instructions in the “Running olsrd in host-emulation mode” section of: <a href="http://www.olsr.org/docs/README-Olsr-Switch.html" target="_blank">http://www.olsr.org/docs/README-Olsr-Switch.html</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The command that I used was ”<span style="color:black">./olsrd -d 1 –hemu 10.0.0.x”, where x ranges from 1 to 17 (inclusive). I’m using the olsrd.conf file that was provided in the tarball from the olsrd website, except that I disabled hysteresis based on the following run-time error that I observed: “Hysteresis and LinkQuality cannot both be active! Deactivate one of them. Bad configuration!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:black">Using GNU Screen, I started olsr_switch in one window, and then I started (sequentially) olsrd in 17 new windows. When I started the 17<sup>th</sup> olsrd process, I observed the following error on the other processes: “Could not read whole packet (size 51592, read 31848). Segmentation fault”, and they all crashed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:black">Is this a fundamental limitation (in terms of scalability) of olsr_switch, or is this a bug that could be fixed by changing some appropriate constants in the olsr_switch and/or olsr directories?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:black">Thank you very much.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal">Caleb Lo</p></font></div></div><br>--<br>
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