[OLSR-users] Re: OLSR Network Dying

Andrew Hodel (spam-protected)
Wed Jun 29 21:57:06 CEST 2005


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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