Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv 2011.2.0 hop somtimes does not work

Marek Lindner
2011-09-06T18:33:17Z

Hi,

> i needed to get this working so i switched to 2011.2 last weekend and
> the problems are gone.

ok.

> I have some similar devices as spare parts. I'll try to set them up and
> reproduce the problems - but that can take a while.

Understood. We hopefully come up with a patch soon that will need to be
tested.

> - every node has only one wlan-network on which batman runs and only the
> node itself uses the bat0 interface - no bridging, no routing
> - at the end, most of the time only the directly connected nodes were
> reachable via a normal ping - the "hopping" was not working
> - i had the *feeling* that the problems got bigger the more nodes we added
> - also i *think* the problems began when we mixed Fonera- and
> TP-Link-devices (sightly different architecture i think)

Can you tell us what TP-Link model you are using (name, hardware revision,
etc). Or post the output of /proc/cpuinfo ?

> - the log was always spammed with messages - because of the tiny devices
> i use it's not easy to save the log and inspect it when the connection
> is working again - which can take an hour...

It is somewhat troublesome that the problem went away after a while. If we
have a bug in the architecture handling you would expect it to be a permanent
problem. But who knows ...

Regards,
Marek