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

[Ben West]

W/r/t to situations where a gateway node undergoes an uncommanded reboot,
e.g. power fails briefly, is there a preferred approach for ensuring all
repeater nodes w/in that mesh have their NAT states refreshed as needed,
when SmartGateway is in use?

For example, if the repeater nodes detect their selected gateway node
rebooting (i.e. becoming unavailable for a few minutes), or even a new
gateway node coming online, should they restart their local instance if
olsrd in consequence?

Or, would the best approach perhaps be to upgrade to olsrd 0.6.6, using the
same config?  I do see these entries in Changelog that might be useful:

      kernel_route: olsr_os_inetgw_tunnel_route can now take the table
      gateway: let the gateway code determine the tunnel name
      gateway: remove the worst gateway before adding new one
      gateway: add SmartGatewayUseCount configuration parameter
      gateway: use SmartGatewayUseCount setting the the gateway lists
      gateway: add SmartGatewayEgressInterfaces configuration parameter
      gateway: add SmartGatewayMarkOffset{Egress,Tunnels} configuration
         parameters
      gateway: add SmartGatewayPolicyRoutingScript configuration parameter
      gateway: initialise a set of fixed tunnel names in/for multi-gateway mode
      gateway: initialise the egress interface names in/for multi-gateway mode
      gateway: use fixed tunnel names in/for multi-gateway mode
      gateway: setup and clear table specific default routes in/for
         multi-gateway mode
      gateway: setup/cleanup multi-gateway mode during startup/shutdown of olsrd
      gateway: introduce and use MULTI_GW_MODE define
      gateway: enable multi-gateway mode

Besides that, I have now deployed this param to all nodes, and disabled
dyn_gw_plain plugin.  However, it looks like a few repeater nodes (not all,
mysteriously) still see their route to the WAN, beyond the gateway node,
break when the gateway node reboots.

LoadPlugin "olsrd_dyn_gw.so.0.5"
{
    PlParam "HNA" "0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0"
}





On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Teco Boot <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> Is *the traffic* from same connection?
> If so, the NAT state is gone after a reboot and connection shall be
> restarted. Smart gateway cannot fix all problems.
>
> Teco
>
>
> Op 24 mrt. 2014, om 19:14 heeft Ben West <(spam-protected)> het volgende
> geschreven:
>
> 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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>> Ben West
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>> 314-246-9434
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>>
>
>
> --
> Ben West
> http://gowasabi.net
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>
>
>


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