[Olsr-users] duplicate hna messages

[Henning Rogge]

On Mon September 6 2010 09:17:25 John Hay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Our ipv6 olsr network sometimes deteriorate to something close to unusable.
> Sometimes it helps to reboot or restart an olsr, but not always. So this
> weekend when it happened again, I compiled a newer tcpdump (that understand
> ipv6 olsr packets) and had a look. I'll add an example at the end.
> 
> What I saw was a lot of "duplicate" hna messages. The ttl, hops and msg-seq
> was different, but the networks and originator the same. Should that be?
> Should it not be filtered to only one usable one?
> 
> Our network consists of various boxes, i386, arm, mips, FreeBSD, linux,
> olsr 0.5.6r7, 0.6.0 and probably others.
> 
> Is that something fixed in a later version?
This looks like one or a few of your OLSRs don't do the duplicate detection 
correctly.

How large is your network ?

Henning Rogge

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