[OLSR-users] Re: OLSR Network Dying

[Andrew Hodel]

Today I have extremely wierd problems, it seems I can ping and telnet
to hosts but when I try ssh or http nothing works?

Could this be something with frag and rts being too low?

Any ideas?



Andrew

On 6/29/05, Andrew Hodel <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> Thomas,
> 
> no, this doesn't make any sense.
> 
> More interesting, now that all nodes are set at 255.0.0.0 everything
> seems to be working fine.  A few routes would work, but everything
> started to work after I switched the last node from a /24 netmask to a
> /8.
> 
> For now, everything seems to be working great.
> 
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On 6/29/05, John Gorkos <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> > This brings up an interesting learning point for me.
> > I find it preferable to use a netmask of 255.255.255.0 and a broadcast address
> > of 192.168.7.255 for all of my olsr nodes.  This makes it possible to
> > manually hop from node to node in case olsrd goes down for some reason
> > without having to stuff in a bunch of host routers.  Is this not how things
> > are "supposed" to work?  Is my broadcast "wrong".  Worse yet, am I flooding
> > my network inadvertently?
> >
> > John Gorkos
> >
> > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 10:45 am, Thomas Lopatic wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > The most interesting thing is that olsr continues to run and all nodes
> > > > have all nodes in the topology, you just can't do anything over the
> > > > network.
> > >
> > > Hmmm. Interesting. This might indicate that in your situation only
> > > broadcasts work, but unicasts don't. OLSR only requires broadcasts to
> > > work. So the routes are successfully generated. However, you cannot use
> > > them.
> > >
> > > Does this make any sense?
> > >
> > > -Thomas
> > >
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