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

wayne abroue
2011-08-31T15:57:44Z

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> At first everything seemed to work. A node on the one end could ping a
>> node on the other end over the mesh-network. The ping was hopping from
>> node to node as expected.
>>
>> But sometimes some paths do not work anymore.
>>
>> Some nodes can only reach their direct neighbors via a "normal ping". A
>> ping to a node via one hop does not work. A "batctl ping" does work!
>>
>> This only happens to parts of the network and is not permanent. If i
>> wait it will recover, but then the problem appears at another node.
>
> since "batctl ping" works I'd say your mesh works fine - you have a problem in
> your higher layers. Maybe a mac address collision or an ARP timeout ?
>
> Can you provide specific examples we can go through ? For instance, provide
> the batctl ping output to the neighbor in question, the ping error message
> (does it say timeout / host could not be found / etc), a batctl traceroute to
> the neighbor in question and the output of the global translation table.
>
> Are you trying to ping a 'fixed' node or a node that is roaming ?
>
> Regards,
> Marek
>
>

I'd also check signal strength,, have experienced this when levels
are fluctuating, ie: batctl ping works, ip not. then comes back.

Wayne A