[olsr-dev] OLSR MainAddr(0.0.0.0)

[Sven-Ola Tuecke]

Hey,

saturday evening I encountered the following (for 1-2 hours):

Nobody in the berlin mesh has internet access, because one station sends out 
a main address of 0.0.0.0. The routing table on every box has an entry of 
"0.0.0.0 104.1.2.3" as the fist entry listed with "route -n". The 0.0.0.0 
host routes form a chain from box to box up to the sender (104.129.0.103 in 
this case). Is it possible to filter out such an announcement in some low 
level "incoming message" function? A main addrs of 0.0.0.0 is illegal anyway 
and it obviously disturbs the route mechanism using HNA4(0.0.0.0/0).

BG Info: Several traceroutes and some nmap investigation later: Someone runs 
the windows version of the daemon using switch.exe. I wrote that user, a 
screenshot of his UI shows: "olsr.org switch 0.4.9", normal settings 
(if04=104.129.0.103 activated, if02=192.168.0.1 deactivated, etx enabled 
level 2, debug=0, poll=0.10). Moreover, the user has tested video streaming 
over OLSR network on fri/sat, but I belive this is not related directly to 
the 0.0.0.0-Effect.

TIA, Sven-Ola