Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv mesh slows down wired clients (bridge-loop-avoidance)

Vinay Tharigopula
2011-02-25T16:14:46Z

Update on this...

As I said previously, after updating to the latest batman-adv, both
routers connected to the lan stopped responding to pings.

I was playing around with the switch settings and setting " Edge + Root
protection with STP" on the ports connected to the routers wired
connection brought them back. Now they act according to the bridge-loop
avoidance document and pick one of the routere to be the primary router
to the lan.

Any idea why this is happening ?

Thanks

Vinay

On 2/25/2011 8:44 AM, Vinay Tharigopula wrote:
> Marek..
>
> I got the binaries from the openwrt prebuilt packages. However, now I
> rebuilt the image and built batman-adv 2011.myself. I will try this
> now and let you know.
>
> However, now I am running into a much bigger issue. If two routers are
> plugged in to the same switch, bridge loop avoidance doesnt work and
> both of them are stopping responding to pings.
>
> Here is my config.
>
> bat0 if:
> wlan1: active.
>
> wlan1: Mesh Network.
>
> wlan0: Infrastructure network.
> eth0 : 4 lan ports
> eth1: 1 wan port
>
> br-lan : wlan0 eth0 eth1 bat0
>
>
> In case anybody else wants the binaries for Openwrt 10.03.1 RC 4 , let
> me know I can send it to you.
>
>
> -Vinay
>
> On 2/24/2011 7:30 PM, Marek Lindner wrote:
>> Hi Vinay,
>>
>>> I am having trouble finding binaries of batman-adv 2011.0 for OpenWRT .
>>> Are they available or do I have to build them myself ?
>> as Linus already pointed out - bridge loop avoidance is not available
>> before
>> batman-adv 2011.0.0. That is what you need to address first.
>>
>> Where did you get the binaries for batman-adv 2010.1.0 ? Does this
>> source also
>> provide newer binaries ? Unlike user space application a kernel
>> module heavily
>> depends on your system (kernel version / patches / etc). Which means
>> nobody
>> can give you binaries without having access to exactly the same
>> system you are
>> using.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marek
>