[Olsr-users] Router Advertisments

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> 1) When the computers in the network are running OLSR, are the
> computers considered as hosts or routers? From what i have gathered,
> they have seen but ignored router advertisments from 1 of the
> computers running OLSR.

They are routers, as you can see by checking
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/whatever/forwarding.

Hence, they ignore router advertisements.  Line 1053 in net/ipv6/ndisc.c:

	if (in6_dev->cnf.forwarding || !in6_dev->cnf.accept_ra) {
		in6_dev_put(in6_dev);
		return;
	}

Don't try to fix this -- it's not a bug, RAs are a link-local
mechanism, and are not suitable for routed networks.  You'll need
a different mechanism for configuring a routed network.

                                        Juliusz