[Olsr-users] Unusual Delays between LQ Hello message transmissions

[Hannes Gredler]

hard to tell baed on the data you have supplied ...
a link to a sender side tcpdump capture file plus
the matching logfile with debugging enabled would
be useful.

/hannes

Joe Pulver wrote:
> I thought I posted this on Friday, but I can not find any record of it 
> in the archive.  If this is a repost, I apologize.  I'm still stumped by 
> this behavior.
> 
> ---
> I'm seeing some unusual gaps in the transmission of LQ Hello Messages.  
> Even though I set the Hello Interval to 0.5, I am occasionally seeing 
> 2-3 second delays between LQ Hello messages (tcpdump on the sending 
> node).  Most of the hello's do go out at 2 Htz, but some take 2-3 
> seconds.  During the 2-3 second gap the TC messages are going out as 
> scheduled, and the OLSR sequence numbers on the outgoing packets show no 
> packet loss. 
> 
> I'm running OLSR-0.5.6, under Linux on a WRAP board.  I'm using the 
> configuration file "files/olsrd.conf.default.lq" with the following 
> modifications.  Thank you in advance for any assistance from the list.
> 
> Pollrate 0.02                 #was 0.05
> HelloInterval 0.5           #was 2.0
> HelloValidityTime 5.0   #was 20.0
> TcInterval 1.0              #was 5.0
> TcValidityTime 10.0    #was 30.0
> 
> 
> Joe Pulver
>