Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman advanced in openwrt

Jacob Marble
2009-06-12T20:27:44Z

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Marek Lindner<lindner_marek@yahoo.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 13 June 2009 01:19:51 Jacob Marble wrote:
>> Some of my nodes cannot see each other...  For example, node 1 can
>> battool ping node 2, but node 2 cannot battool ping node 1.
>
> That would be pretty strange as batman always has to make sure that the
> connection goes in both directions. Can you post the originators output plus
> the batping result ?

I will when it happens again.

>> "cat ath0 > /proc/net/batman-adv/interfaces"
>> produces:
>> "Can't activate module: the primary interface is not active"
>
> This message indicates that this nodes already has one interface which is not
> activate. Could you post "cat /proc/net/batman-adv/interfaces" after you get
> this result ?

"echo 'ath0' > interfaces"
"cat interfaces"
ath0

[ 97532] Adding interface: ath0
[ 97532] Can't activate module: the primary interface is not active
[ 97534] Adding route towards: 00:15:6d:a7:6a:14 (via 00:15:6d:a7:6a:14)
[ 97534] Creating new global hna entry: 00:ff:cf:5c:68:e0 (via
00:15:6d:a7:6a:14)
[ 97535] Adding route towards: 00:15:6d:a7:6a:9c (via 00:15:6d:a7:6a:9c)
[ 97535] Creating new global hna entry: 00:ff:a2:47:d9:c3 (via
00:15:6d:a7:6a:9c)
[ 97539] Changing route towards: 00:15:6d:a7:6a:9c (now via
00:15:6d:a7:6a:14 - was via 00:15:6d:a7:6a:9c)

>> The node that can ping out, but not be pinged gave the following before it
>> died:
>>
>> "Could not read from deactivated interface <NULL>!"
>
> Can you explain the exact steps to reproduce this behaviour ?

I will when it happens again.

Jake