[Olsr-dev] invalidate node links
Giovanni Di Stasi
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Thu Nov 3 11:07:53 CET 2011
Il 03/11/2011 10:55, Markus Kittenberger ha scritto:
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> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Giovanni Di Stasi <(spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)>> wrote:
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> Il 31/10/2011 18:53, Markus Kittenberger ha scritto:
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>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Giovanni Di Stasi <(spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)>> wrote:
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>> Il 30/09/2011 10:55, Markus Kittenberger ha scritto:
>>> olsrd would drop all links if u take the interface down and not changing its channel while it stays (logically) up all the time.
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>>> ip link set down dev wlan0
>>> iwconfig wlan0 channel x
>>> ip link set up dev wlan0
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>>> maybe iwconfig does not work on an downed interface (depends on the wlan driver), than swap order of line 2 and 3,.
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>> I have done the following that seems to help a bit:
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>> iwconfig wlan0 channel X
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>> hmm dont you have different bssids on your channels?
> Yes, I do. I don't set the bssid, but just the essid and the channels.
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> thats mostly fine (as long as u do not suffer from bssid splits)
> (thats why i would recommend setting bssid)
fortunately I am not seeing bssid splits...
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> Why do you ask that?
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> as setting the same bssid on different channels, is no good idea, but afaic some people do it for simplicity,..
Why do you think is not a good idea?
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> Markus
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> p.s. regarding window, afair there are (besides message interval) no (configuration) tuneables in actual linksensing
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> but how long does it need for you until a new link is symmetric?
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It takes something like 35-40s (which leads to something like 40s for a UDP connection to recover and 52s for a TCP connection).
The idea was to tune the parameters to show that it was possible to speed up the link establishment.
Thanks,
Giovanni
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