Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Mesh with access from wifi and lan. Which is the Only True Way?

[Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>]

On Wednesday 29 September 2010 21:41:29 Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> I actually want to enable traffic. Any traffic from any node in the mesh.
> Regarding packet storm: I thought that the reject in the default 
> iptables config might be there to stop propagation of some packets which 
> would otherwise propagate and thus multiply in multiple routes. I am 
> seeing batman packets rejected there.
> As you can see, working of batmand is somewhat a black magic for me, 
> esp. wrt. the role of the gate interface.
>  From the fact that I had to touch the default firewall config to make 
> it work has suggested that I either do some nonstandard thing, or I am 
> doing it in the wrong way.

Normally, you don't any specific rules to make it work - it works as-is out of 
the box unless your system configures a firewall. If you tell your system to 
disable the firewall entirely everything will work.
What distribution are you using ? OpenWRT ?

The gateway handling (i.e. gate0) is documented:
http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/InternetTuning
Feel free to ask questions that the documentation does not answer. :-)


> This is why I try to figure out whether my config is sound enough before 
> I give it to my village (some 8 thousand people).

Wow, sounds interesting. Where will that be ?

Regards,
Marek