[Olsr-users] Strange problem with OLSR (unable to build topology)

[Florian RODARY]

Sorry, the problem has been resolved and it's not OLSR or Orinoco related,
but rather IP related, even though I carefully checked configuration before.
You can disregard the previous message.

Sorry for the disturbing caused.
Regards,
Florian

2007/11/27, Florian RODARY <(spam-protected)>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm facing a problem that appeared just today.
> I'm dealing with a simple three nodes ad-hoc topology.
> When running OLSRd for the first time on Orinoco-equipped nodes, nothing
> appears in the debugging output. I've found that running a tcpdump instance
> will cause instantly OLSRd to react and build the topology. It seems that
> switching promiscuous states will resolve the problem.
>
> This problem is strange since it worked well before. I don't think it's
> OLSR related, but rather Orinoco related since Tx excessive retries and Rx
> invalid frag counters in iwconfig are incremented before running tcpdump.
> Does anyone have any idea about that, or faced the same similar problem ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards,
> Florian
>
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