[Olsr-users] olsr not pinging in 2 hops

[Henning Rogge]

Finally have some time to look over this again...

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:11 PM, pramod Jayram <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> I used tcpdump command to trace the packet  and i found this
>
> 192.168.1.45.698 > 192.168.1.255.698: [udp sum ok] OLSRv4, seq 0x2be6,
> length 40
> Hello-LQ Message (0xc9), originator 192.168.1.45, ttl 1, hop 0
>  vtime 20.000s, msg-seq 0x0e97, length 36
>  hello-time 2.000s, MPR willingness 3
>    link-type Symmetric, neighbor-type Symmetric, len 20
>      neighbor 192.168.1.95, link-quality 38.82%, neighbor-link-quality
> 34.90%
>      neighbor 192.168.1.25, link-quality 89.41%, neighbor-link-quality
> 100.00%

This looks like some of your links are really bad. 30-40% link quality
means that that 2 of 3 multicasts get lost. Which result in an ETX of
~10... that is not a stable link.

(to use txtinfo you need to copy the shared library
olsrd_txtinfo.so.0.1 to your target system)

Henning