[Olsr-dev] no interfaces detected / 0.6.2 / arch: atheros

[Markus Kittenberger]

the '100' patch is, but in a slightly different form.

>
> hmm could someone post a link or the sourcecode of this patch?
>
ok, my fault, as it was already posted,.. (-;

the point of that patch is to not destroy the forward setting.
>>
>

> afair olsrd reads in such (and other kernel settings it changes) on startup
> and restores them back on (a clean) exit.
>
 and this patch disables both the override as the restore,..

and imho this patch, is ... dangerous!
as running olsrd without forwarding enabled, results in turning this
node/router into a potential blackhole (for other mesh users)

while the 900 patch, would (in modified form) likely go upstream,..

as i remeber several times, we said/thought we should disable this
olsrd.conf overwrite (due to the interactive question) completely (i.e. not
overwrite existing olsrd.confs),
as 99.9% of the time users will enter NO

>
> upstream olsr should have something like that: 'get fwd setting, if not
>> fwd-ia ng then set fwd-ing' and at the end: 'restore fwd-ing'
>
>
> lg Markus
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