[Olsr-users] OOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Re: NOW SIMPLEST EXAMPLE: OLSRd - can't understand routing

[Derek C]

Instantly all looking better..

:-|  Sorry about that!

Derek

On Mon, February 23, 2009 10:22 pm, Derek C wrote:
> Oops,
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> Hold on.... I just see how that I'm specifying "eth0" as my OLSRd NIC
> whereas it actually should be eth1 (error in my olsrd.conf).
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> I'm fixing this now....
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> So stupid I know....
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> Derek
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> On Mon, February 23, 2009 10:12 pm, Derek C wrote:
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>> Hi Henning,
>>
>>
>>
>>> Sorry that noone replied do your mail earlier, but let's see what we
>>> have got here...
>>
>> No problem - its great to be able to get help!
>>
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>>
>>>> ETH0       ETH0         ETH0
>>>> 5.1.0.1   5.1.0.2      5.1.0.3
>>>> OLSRd1    OLSRd2       OLSRd3
>>>> 5.2.0.1   5.2.0.2 ---- 5.2.0.3
>>>> ATH0        ATH0          ATH0
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>> How do you use the eth0 interface ? Is it an additional OLSR
>>> interface or do you just define a HNA domain ?
>>
>> It's just setup as an additional OLSRd interface.
>>
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>> Actually I did try setting a HNA 0.0.0.0 route to see what would happen
>> -
>> it was interesting:  Normally (with the ath0 and eth0 OLSRd interfaces) I
>>  have two default routes showing but with the HNA settings in there
>> (with NO
>> other changes to the ath0 or eth0 settings) I only got one [better
>> looking] default route.  Still.. I didn't leave it this way because it
>> just seemed wrong.
>>
>>> If it's an HNA it might explain your problem, because OLSR is not
>>> designed to use HNA as shortcut to other parts of the OLSR mesh. You
>>> have to use it as mesh interface too or build up a VPN tunnel through
>>>  the backbone between the OLSR instances (which will then be used as
>>> an additional OLSR interface).
>>
>> My "backhaul" is Mikrotik routerboards with XR5 cards and they are
>> transparently bridging their ethernet ports to the datacentre end so the
>>  x86 boards running openwrt & OLSRd "see" their ethX port as being
>> connected directly to a server running OLSRd itself (where it is the
>> only device with a HNA 0.0.0.0/0 entry).
>>
>>> What happens if you just use the backbone links as  additional OLSR
>>> interface (which will have a nearly perfect ETX value I think) ?
>>
>> Yes - this is what I'm doing.  Initially I had no difference in
>> settings for ath0 and eth0.  More recently I tried putting in
>> "LinkQualityMult"
>> entries but it doesn't seem to have any affect.
>>
>>> Could you maybe post your olsrd.conf and the version of your olsrd
>>> routing daemon ? This might help...
>>
>>
>> This is the details of the 5.1.0.3/5.2.0.3 board (as per my diagram): -
>>
>>
>>
>> Note:  All IPs beginning with 5.10 are OLSRd boxes (single radio card
>> test client units).  All IPs beginning with 5.1 are the ethX ports of my
>>  x86 gateway boards and all IPs beginning with 5.2 are the athX ports
>> of the same gateway boards.
>>
>> netstat -rn: -
>>
>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window
>> irtt Iface
>> 5.10.0.6        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0
>>  ath0 5.10.0.7        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0 0
>> ath0 5.10.0.4        5.2.0.1         255.255.255.255 UGH       0 0 0
>> ath0 5.0.0.1         5.2.0.1         255.255.255.255 UGH       0 0 0
>> ath0 5.10.0.2        5.2.0.1         255.255.255.255 UGH       0 0 0
>> ath0 5.2.0.2         5.2.0.1         255.255.255.255 UGH       0 0 0
>> ath0 5.10.0.3        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0 0
>> ath0 5.10.0.1        5.2.0.1         255.255.255.255 UGH       0 0 0
>> ath0 5.2.0.1         0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0 0
>> ath0 192.168.100.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0 0
>> ath1 192.168.182.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0 0
>> tun0 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0 0
>> eth0 5.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U         0 0 0
>> eth1 5.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U         0 0 0
>> ath0 0.0.0.0         5.0.0.1         0.0.0.0         UG        0 0 0
>> eth1 0.0.0.0         5.2.0.1         0.0.0.0         UG        0 0 0
>> ath0
>>
>> olsrd.conf:
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>> (spam-protected):~# cat /etc/olsrd.conf
>> UseHysteresis        no
>> TcRedundancy         2
>> MprCoverage          1
>> LinkQualityLevel     2
>> LinkQualityWinSize   10
>>
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>> DebugLevel	     0
>>
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>> #Hna4 {
>> #     0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
>> #     }
>>
>>
>>
>> #LoadPlugin "olsrd_dyn_gw.so.0.4"
>> #{
>> #    PlParam "Interval" "60"
>> #    PlParam "Ping" "151.1.1.1"
>> #    PlParam "Ping" "194.25.2.129"
>> #    }
>>
>>
>>
>> LoadPlugin "olsrd_httpinfo.so.0.1"
>> {
>> PlParam "Net" "5.0.0.0 255.0.0.0"
>> PlParam "port" "8080"
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> #LoadPlugin "olsrd_txtinfo.so.0.1"
>> #{
>> #    PlParam "port" "8081"
>> #    PlParam "Host" "127.0.0.1"
>> #    }
>>
>>
>>
>> Interface "ath0"
>> {
>> Ip4Broadcast 255.255.255.255
>> HelloValidityTime     20.0
>> HelloInterval         2.0
>> #LinkQualityMult default 0.1
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> Interface "eth0"
>> {
>> Ip4Broadcast 255.255.255.255
>> HelloValidityTime     20.0
>> HelloInterval         2.0
>> #Weight 0
>> LinkQualityMult 0.0.0.0 2.00
>> }
>>
>>
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>>>
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>>> Henning
>>>
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