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

[Joe Pulver]

Here is a 30 second dump.  The 2-3 second gap occurs 3 times.  If I 
misinterpreted "logfile with debugging info enabled"  let me know.  
Thank you for the quick reply.

http://www.appleaid.com/olsr/olsrdbg.tar.gz

Joe Pulver

Hannes Gredler wrote:
> 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
>>
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