Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Problem with B.A.T.M.A.N. 0.3.1 rv1206 (compatibility version 5)

[Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>]

On Thursday 19 March 2009 21:38:14 Max wrote:
> Now I'm able to ping every originator in the network. The problem is
> derived from some iptables filters that stop the ping. Executing the
> following command I remove the filters solving the problem:

Glad to hear that.


> When I launch the daemon in normal mode, using the command "batmand ath0",
> no error is displayed but no OGMs is observed to be travelling in the
> network using Wireshark. The only message displayed is:
> "Interface activated: ath0
> Using interface ath0 with address 10.0.0.1 and broadcast address
> 10.255.255.255"

Could you please run 
batmand -c -d 4
after you started the daemon ? This command will make batman start a "client" 
that connects to the running daemon that outputs error messages. Feel free to 
share these messages with us.  :-)


> And finally another question...
> Is it normal to observe 3 different processes named batmand using the shell
> command ps?

Batman uses threads to parallelize certain tasks (basically 2 threads). Older 
kernel versions / different thread implementations don't offer "real" threads 
but use processes instead. Usually, they create a control process that syncs 
the other "threads" (processes in this case), hence 2 + 1 processes in "ps".

Regards,
Marek