[Olsr-dev] [Olsr-users] Route on repeater nodes sometimes break when gateway node reboots

[Ferry Huberts]

forgot the include the list...

We have not seen this and we use smart gateway heavily.
Can you show configs of both nodes?

On 24/03/14 02:39, Ben West wrote:
> I have seen sporadic instances of certain repeater nodes' (not all,
> generally a small subset of all repeater nodes in a given mesh), break
> their route through the gateway node if the gateway node reboots while
> the repeater does not.
>
> That is, the gateway node reboots, and the affected repeater node
> thereafter appears to correctly re-establish its route thru the gateway,
> but the gateway doesn't actually route the repeater's traffic.  From the
> affected node, I can ping the gateway's mesh IP and also the gateway's
> WAN IP, but I can't ping anything beyond the gateway node's WAN interface.
>
> Restarting olsrd on the repeater node seems to resolve this problem
> consistently.
>
> This is occurring on nodes running OpenWRT AA r39154 and OLSRd v6.5-4,
> using SmartGateway.  I'm quoting my /etc/config/olsrd below, used on all
> notes alike.
>
> Has anyone else observed a similar problem?  Browsing the changelog at
> http://olsr.org/git/ since v6.5-4 doesn't show any mention of explicit
> SmartGateway bugfixes, just additional features.
>
> -----
> config olsrd
>      # uncomment the following line to use a custom config file instead:
>      #option config_file '/etc/olsrd.conf'
>
>      option 'IpVersion' '4'
>      option 'LinkQualityLevel' '2'
>      option 'LinkQualityAlgorithm' 'etx_ffeth'
>      option 'SmartGateway' 'yes'
>      option 'Pollrate' '0.1'
>      option 'TcRedundancy'    '2'
>      option 'MprCoverage'    '5'
>
> config 'LoadPlugin'
>      option 'library' 'olsrd_arprefresh.so.0.1'
>
> config 'LoadPlugin'
>      option 'library' 'olsrd_dyn_gw.so.0.5'
>
> config 'LoadPlugin'
>      option 'library' 'olsrd_dyn_gw_plain.so.0.4'
>
> config 'LoadPlugin'
>    option 'library' 'olsrd_nameservice.so.0.3'
>    #option 'resolv_file' '/tmp/resolv.conf.auto'
>    option 'sighup_pid_file' '/var/run/dnsmasq.pid'
>    option 'suffix' '.mesh'
>
> config 'LoadPlugin'
>      option 'library' 'olsrd_txtinfo.so.0.1'
>      option 'accept' '0.0.0.0'
>
> config 'Interface'
>      list 'interface' 'mesh'
>      option 'Ip4Broadcast' '255.255.255.255'
>      option 'Mode' 'mesh'
> #
>
>
> --
> Ben West
> http://gowasabi.net
> (spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)>
> 314-246-9434
>
>

-- 
Ferry Huberts