[Olsr-users] Route on repeater nodes sometimes break when gateway node reboots

[Ben West]

Ferry pointed this out off-list.  I've since removed dyn_gw_plain on the
nodes where I was testing, and am trying to see if the problem can be
repeated.


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Teco Boot <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> On original posting: why using both dyn_gw and dyn_gw_plain?
>
> Teco
>
>
> Op 24 mrt. 2014, om 02:39 heeft Ben West <(spam-protected)> het volgende
> geschreven:
>
> I have seen sporadic instances of certain repeater nodes' (not all,
> generally a small subset of all repeater nodes in a given mesh), break
> their route through the gateway node if the gateway node reboots while the
> repeater does not.
>
> That is, the gateway node reboots, and the affected repeater node
> thereafter appears to correctly re-establish its route thru the gateway,
> but the gateway doesn't actually route the repeater's traffic.  From the
> affected node, I can ping the gateway's mesh IP and also the gateway's WAN
> IP, but I can't ping anything beyond the gateway node's WAN interface.
>
> Restarting olsrd on the repeater node seems to resolve this problem
> consistently.
>
> This is occurring on nodes running OpenWRT AA r39154 and OLSRd v6.5-4,
> using SmartGateway.  I'm quoting my /etc/config/olsrd below, used on all
> notes alike.
>
> Has anyone else observed a similar problem?  Browsing the changelog at
> http://olsr.org/git/ since v6.5-4 doesn't show any mention of explicit
> SmartGateway bugfixes, just additional features.
>
> -----
> config olsrd
>     # uncomment the following line to use a custom config file instead:
>     #option config_file '/etc/olsrd.conf'
>
>     option 'IpVersion' '4'
>     option 'LinkQualityLevel' '2'
>     option 'LinkQualityAlgorithm' 'etx_ffeth'
>     option 'SmartGateway' 'yes'
>     option 'Pollrate' '0.1'
>     option 'TcRedundancy'    '2'
>     option 'MprCoverage'    '5'
>
> config 'LoadPlugin'
>     option 'library' 'olsrd_arprefresh.so.0.1'
>
> config 'LoadPlugin'
>     option 'library' 'olsrd_dyn_gw.so.0.5'
>
> config 'LoadPlugin'
>     option 'library' 'olsrd_dyn_gw_plain.so.0.4'
>
> config 'LoadPlugin'
>   option 'library' 'olsrd_nameservice.so.0.3'
>   #option 'resolv_file' '/tmp/resolv.conf.auto'
>   option 'sighup_pid_file' '/var/run/dnsmasq.pid'
>   option 'suffix' '.mesh'
>
> config 'LoadPlugin'
>     option 'library' 'olsrd_txtinfo.so.0.1'
>     option 'accept' '0.0.0.0'
>
> config 'Interface'
>     list 'interface' 'mesh'
>     option 'Ip4Broadcast' '255.255.255.255'
>     option 'Mode' 'mesh'
> #
>
>
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