[olsr-dev] is olsr not a multi path routing protocol

[Sven-Ola Tuecke]

Hey,

mixing WDS and routing is a bit off-topic for me. Sorry - not much help from 
my side. You sure haven't introducted too much newbie mistakes?

Sven-Ola

"Abhishek Misra" <(spam-protected)> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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>
> Hello
>
> Is olsr not a multi path routing protocol, please correct if I'm wrong.
>
> I made a setup of four nodes in a ring topology
>
>  -A-B-C-D-
> |         |
>  --------- 
>
> Node A has
>
> wlan0wds0 inet addr:20.1.1.1  Bcast:20.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>
> wlan0wds1 inet addr:30.1.1.1  Bcast:30.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>
>
> Node B has
>
> wlan0wds0 inet addr:20.1.1.2  Bcast:20.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>
> wlan0wds1 inet addr:40.1.1.2  Bcast:30.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>
> Node C has
>
> wlan0wds0 inet addr:40.1.1.1  Bcast:20.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>
> wlan0wds1 inet addr:50.1.1.1  Bcast:30.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>
> Node D has
>
> wlan0wds0 inet addr:50.1.1.2  Bcast:20.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>
> wlan0wds1 inet addr:30.1.1.2  Bcast:30.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>
> route display for node A while olsr is running
>
> [(spam-protected) root]# route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> Iface
> 192.168.100.1   20.1.1.2        255.255.255.255 UGH   2      0        0
> wlan0wds0
>
> 50.1.1.2        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    1      0        0
> wlan0wds1
>
> 50.1.1.1        20.1.1.2        255.255.255.255 UGH   2      0        0
> wlan0wds0
>
> 20.1.1.2        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    1      0        0
> wlan0wds0
>
> 30.1.1.2        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    1      0        0
> wlan0wds1
>
> 40.1.1.2        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    1      0        0
> wlan0wds0
>
> 40.1.1.1        20.1.1.2        255.255.255.255 UGH   2      0        0
> wlan0wds0
>
> 20.1.1.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
> wlan0wds0
>
> 192.168.6.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
> eth0
>
> 30.1.1.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
> wlan0wds1
>
> 192.168.200.0   20.1.1.2        255.255.255.0   UG    2      0        0
> wlan0wds0
>
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
>
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.6.100   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
> eth0
> [(spam-protected) root]#
>
>
>
>
> A multipath protocol should have shown two paths to node C i.e. through
> node B and node D but this shows only one route.
>
> please explain this.
>
> Thank You
>
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