[OLSR-users] BSSID in Freifunk running OLSR

Joe Bush (spam-protected)
Thu Jul 20 20:47:37 CEST 2006


Are you sure both wireless machines are running olsrd?

Joe

On 7/20/06, Stuart G. Nielson <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> Just a quick update.  I disconnected the ethernet cables (internet
> connections) connected to the two clients.  This allows me to ping to both
> routers from either client, but I still cannot ping from client1 to client2,
> or client2 to client1.  Is there some additional routing that needs to
> happen?  I figured that since both clients are connected wirelessly, there
> would be no additional routing or forwarding of packets.
>
> I also telnetted into both routers and tried to ping back (Router1 to
> Client1, and Router2 to Client2).  Router2 to Client2 worked, but the other
> didn't.  I'm confused because both routers are configured exactly the same.
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> sgnielson
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: (spam-protected) [mailto:(spam-protected)]On
> Behalf Of Stuart G. Nielson
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:05 PM
> To: (spam-protected)
> Subject: [OLSR-users] BSSID in Freifunk running OLSR
>
>
> I have two WRT54GL routers that I had flashed with Freifunk.  I set up OLSR
> and it seemed to be working okay when I set it up as follows:  Client
> <-------> Router1 <-------> Router2 <--------> Internet
>
> I could do 'tracert www.google.com' and it would show that it was going
> through router1 to router2 out to the internet.  I then connected it to up
> another client rather than the internet like so:  Client1 <-------> Router1
> <-------> Router2 <--------> Client2
>
> When I did that I couldn't ping the second layer router from either
> direction (Client1 couldn't ping Router2, and Client2 couldn't ping
> Router1).  I then read somewhere that the BSSID needs to be set on all the
> routers in order for them to communicate properly.  I set the BSSID to the
> default shown in the Freifunk web admin page and rebooted the router.  Now I
> can't even ping the router I am directly connected to.  Has anyone had any
> problem like this?  Is there some setting that needs to be set on the client
> as well?
>
> I know this might be more of an OLSR issue, but Freifunk is based off of
> OpenWRT and many users on this board have likely configured a similar
> scenario.  Thanks for any input.
>
> sgnielson
>
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