[Olsr-users] duplicate hna messages

[John Hay]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:38:10AM +0200, Henning Rogge wrote:
> 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 ?

About 30 nodes. It does not happen the whole time. It seems like sometimes
it would be ok for more than a month and then something triggers it.

John
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