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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batmand terminates silently
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:26:31 +0200
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Hi,

> few weeks agoe I had sometimes the problem that batmand (experimental)
> exits silently. Today I found maybe one reason for this.
> When you have batman running and insert the iptable rule
>
> iptables -I OUTPUT -o eth1 -j DROP
>
>
> batmand exits. This also happen for additional interfaces controlled
> by batmand.

actually this is logged to syslog and debug level 4. A "logread -f" on OpenWRT 
systems should show something like that: 

Error - can't send udp packet: Permission denied.
Does your firewall allow outgoing packets on port 4306 ?

Regards,
Marek