[Olsr-users] Probleme of network topology discovery

[Henning Rogge]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:57 PM, PAtrick Gerber <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I use olsr on 3 embedded cards powered by an ARM machine and I would like to
> create a simple network between this 3 cards.
> Each card is powered by Linux and have a USB wifi stick configured in ad-hoc
> mode. Each card have a different IP with the same sub-network (192.168.0.1,
> 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3) and all the same SSID and netmask. I can connect
> to each card from my laptop so I think wifi work well. All the 3 card are in
> the same area with 1m between each.  My configuration file (based on an
> example from the source) is the attached one.
>
> My problem is when I start olsrd on each card olsr doesn't discover the
> other cards. Olsrd is running and serching other node but nothing are
> discovered. Do you have an idea of what could be my probleme ?
1.) can you ping one embedded node from the other ones ?
2.) do you detect (with tcpdump) incoming broadcast traffic from the
running olsrd nodes of the other two devices ?

Henning

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