[Olsr-users] low signal and dropping default route

[Derek C]

Hi Aaron,

Yes - I think you are right.  I've been playing around with the nodes this
evening (I've asked people not to unplug them) and signal is the problem
(its a non-line-of-sight problem really).  I'm going to fix it early next
week.

But this [default route dropping due to poor connection] has got me
looking at olsrd.conf settings again.  Do you know if there is good
documentation on the OLSR "TcRedundancy", "MprCoverage" and "LinkQuality"
directives?

I was reading up the man pages but some things confuse me (like it says in
the olsrd.conf man page that, for MprCoverage, it "Defaults to 1 , and any
other setting will severly reduce the optimization introduced by the MPR
secheme".  Whats funny/strange is that I had this set to 2 without having
any idea why!

thanks,

Derek


On Wed, January 21, 2009 10:42 pm, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:
>

> short answer from my experience/ my perspective: you will want to get a
> better antenna in that case :) (more directional -> better signal to noise
> ratio).
>
> IMHO layer 2 should be improved before any other routing layer 3 stuff
> is attempted.
>
> a.
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Derek C wrote:
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I'm adding nodes to a test OLSRd network based in a high density
>> housing estate.
>>
>> I have some nodes that are not working very well.  Its because the
>> signal is not great (some pings dropping and association signal in the
>> '80s).
>>
>>
>> On these nodes the default route, via OLSRd, keeps coming and going
>> and not staying up.
>>
>> Is there any way to make OLSRd more keen to keep the default route
>> up even when the signal is not great?  It's not a perfect solution I know
>>  but I was able to get around 2Mbps through on a speed test when the
>> default route was up and working.
>
> you probably could tweak the interval timers.
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Derek
>>
>>
>>
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