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

[Hannes Gredler]

ok i see - i can replicate the problem.

Joe Pulver wrote:
> 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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