[OLSR-users] Re: OLSR Network Dying

[Benoit PAPILLAULT]

Sven-Ola Tuecke a écrit :
> Andrew,
> 
> you configured your wlan ifaces with netmask 255.255.255.0 while having
> a hard 255.255.255.255 broadcast in /etc/olsrd.conf. This may or may not
> the reason for your observation, but I recommend to use the "official"
> 10.x.x.x netmask (which is 255.0.0.0) because this works for all other
> networks I know about.

I have a small network here too (14 nodes around) with every kind of IP
address (10.x.x.x, 192.168.x.x). All nodes are configured to broadcast
OLSR packets to 255.255.255.255 and this just work.

> And: with that netmask no direct ping to neighbours is possible without
> host routes.

That is correct. Then ping is possible only when OLSR has added routes
and then it works. BTW, ping from node A to node B will only work if
node A has a route to node B and node B has a route to node A (and the
same on every intermediate nodes of course).

> 
> Sven->Ola

Andrew: can you send us the result of the ifconfig command ?

Benoit PAPILLAULT