[Olsr-dev] [Olsr-users] Maybe problem when disabling all olsr network interfaces

[Hannes Gredler]

Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> Hannes,
> I gave this latest patch a try as well. It doesn't cause regressions,
> but I'm not sure it causes any improvements either. Sometimes the
> routes really vanish immediately, but sometimes they linger around
> for some time (I have seen 13 sec, using the default LQ olsrd.conf).

sorry, the patch was not working as expected - pls try the attached one.

> So I'm not sure that this is really different from what I saw
> previously.

makes sense.

> BTW, doing this testing I observed something else that smells like
> a misfeature (good software doesn't have bugs :-)):
> I have two nodes in my test setup:
> 172.16.0.5 is the one I'm using to enable and disable the interface,
> 172.16.0.6 is there to provide some routes itself and two HNA,
> 
> If 172.16.0.5 vanishes, than 172.16.0.6 keeps an entry in the TC table
> 
> Src          Dst        LQ           ETX
> 172.16.0.6   172.16.0.5 0.600/0.749  2.225
> 
> Everything else is empty. This TC entry will not change until the
> other node (172.16.0.5) comes back.

are you sure ? it should disappear after its validity time has expired.


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