[Olsr-users] Testing OLSRD hops feature

[Zack Genesis]

Thx Markus for advising...

Actually the macbook problem is faced by a friend of mine
Turn out to be he fail to notice that he actually enter a wrong Gateway
address...
Which jeopardies the whole hopping thing...

Sorry for the trouble & thank for your help =)

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Markus Kittenberger <
(spam-protected)> wrote:

> olsrd can do this, it can do it not only for 2 or 3 hops but for hundreds
> of hops aswell *GG
>
> and there is no option do enable (or disable) this,.. as creating routes to
> destinations further way than one hop this is the sole purpose of a routing
> protocol,...
>
> but there are various OS specific methods to break routing/forwarding, or
> anything *G
>
> my general advice (for such a simpe 2 hop setup), ist try to setup manual
> routes first, to learn and understand how routing works, and how to debug
> it, and what u have to configure in you OS to make it work,.
>
> and afterwards start olsrd,..
>
> Markus
>
> p.s. you should also state that u (as i asume) used macbooks, and this is
> very likely the reason for your problems,..
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Zack Genesis <(spam-protected)>wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I'm having a doubt about the hopping feature of OLSRD
>> I have tested with 3 laptops
>>
>> Laptop1 -- Laptop2 -- Laptop3
>>
>> I distance Laptop 1 & 3 apart so they cant commnicate
>> But by placing laptop 2 in the middle by theory, shouldn't laptop1 be able
>> to pass msg to laptop3 through laptop2 by doing hop?
>> It seem to me that laptop1 can communicate to laptop2 but not 3...
>>
>> Is there any solution to set the "hop" feature on OLSRD?
>> Appreciated for any solutions or ideas, Thank
>>
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