[Olsr-users] Cannot communicate 2 hops away

[Henning Rogge]

On Tue May 10 2011 06:08:48 RC Loh wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I have 3 MacBook Pro running OLSRD 0.6.0 with their IP addresses as shown
> below: 
>  
> 10.10.10.13/24                10.10.10.12/24            10.10.10.15/24
> (macbook13)                    (macbook12)                (macbook15)
>  
>  
> When I placed all the 3 MacBooks close together, all of them can PING to
> each other.
>  
> When I placed macbook13 far away from macbook15 such that the routing table
> of macbook13 did not have the DIRECT route to macbook15 but only had the
> route to macbook12. The PING started to fail.
>  
> Below are 2 questions:
>  
> 1) When I did a PING from macbook13 to macbook15, I did not received a
> response from macbook15. Why?
>  
> 2) When I brought all the 3 MacBooks back to close together, they still
> cannot PING to each other. Why?
>  
> Anything that I configured wrongly?
>  
> Any advise is appreciated.
A few standard questions first... *G*

1.) what version of olsrd did you use ? (run "olsrd -v")
2.) what was the routing table when mac 13 and mac 15 could not hear each 
other ?
3) did you receive OLSR packets on all three nodes (check with "tcpdump -i 
<interface> -s 0 -vv port 698")

Henning Rogge
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