[OLSR-users] Preventing route overwrite by peripheral nodes arp

[Henning Wangerin]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 22:27 -0400, P C wrote:
> After assembling our olsr mesh network, I noticed that when a node is distant 
> enough from another node to have it's MAC address intermittently visible in 
> the route table, it seems to be overwriting OLSR's preferred route through 
> an intermediary node, and instead trying to directly communicate with a node 
> that is really too far away with lots of ping loss.  Is there a way to remedy 
> this behavior?

The way freifunk handles it, is by blocking the ip in the firewall -
iptables.

Works great.

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Henning Wangerin <(spam-protected)>