[Olsr-users] Cannot communicate 2 hops away

[Markus Kittenberger]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:48 AM, RC Loh <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> Hi Henning, Markus,
>
> I have upgraded the OLSRD to version 0.6.1. I have also changed the
> intermediate MacBook Pro. But the problem is still the same -- the OLSRD is
> still not able to route message via the intermediate MacBook Pro.
>
>
> 10.10.10.13                       10.10.10.11
> 10.10.10.15
> (Mac13)
> (Mac11)                                   (Mac15)
>

did u try to define static routes yourself, i.e. the same that olsrd
would/should create?
(or see one of my earlier mails)

>
> However, with the same setup but using LINUX, the OLSRD works.
>
> I am beginning to suspect the problem is caused by the OSX of the MacBook
> Pro.
>

> May I know which version of OSX is proven to work with the OLSRD?
>
hmm an osx version proven to work with olsrd as good as linux

none,..

in general i would asume for macos 10.x

the smaller x the better,..

but olsrd under BSD-ish OS (like OSx is one) should work good enough for
your extreme simple scenario,..

Markus


>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Rdgs,
> Paul
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Markus Kittenberger <(spam-protected)>
> *To:* RC Loh <(spam-protected)>
> *Cc:* Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)>;
> (spam-protected)
> *Sent:* Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:35:41
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Olsr-users] Cannot communicate 2 hops away
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:53 AM, RC Loh <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>
>>  Attached is the screen capture for "olsrd -v" and "tcpdump" taken from
>> 10.10.10.15.
>>
>
> i did not see any attachments,..
> (but probably the list server removed them due to size restrictions)
>
> (btw noone needs images, just copy the text of the consoles into your mail)
>
>
>>  Hi Markus,
>>
>>
>    From what I checked from the OLRDS web site,
>>
> hmm i love to  know what on the olsr.org site should be different, to
> recognise that 0.6.0 is not the newest,..
>
> as i found no real difference between those 2 announcements on olsr.org
>
> http://olsr.org/?q=0.6.1+released
> http://olsr.org/?q=olsrd-0.6.0
>
>
>
>>    the version 0.6.0 is the latest stable version.
>>
>>
> hmm this is the latest stable release:
> http://olsr.org/?q=0.6.1+released
>
> and first line of this list is the latest stable version:
> http://olsr.org/git/?p=olsrd.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable
>
> Markus
>
>
>>
>> Rdgs,
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>> *From:* Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)>
>> *To:* (spam-protected)
>> *Cc:* RC Loh <(spam-protected)>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:57:07
>> *Subject:* Re: [Olsr-users] Cannot communicate 2 hops away
>>
>> 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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