Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] packets not processed by batman on eth0

Geneviève Bastien
2012-06-22T18:53:57Z

Wow! It works! I just added the line
option 'type' 'bridge'
to my mesh1 interface and my whole mesh is now working. Thanks!

Was that documented somewhere? It gave me quite a headache for such a
simple solution.

Thanks,
Geneviève

On 12-06-21 11:03 PM, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> Hi,
> it might be your VLAN configuration - as far as I know, 0 is not a valid
> VLAN id.
>
> But I also found that batman-adv doesn't work on VLAN interfaces on my
> OpenWRT routers. As a workaround you can create a new bridge that only
> contains the VLAN interface and add the bridge to bat0 instead.
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
>
> On 06/22/2012 04:38 AM, Geneviève Bastien wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 12-06-21 04:28 AM, Marek Lindner wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> I talked to marec last week on irc (I'm tahini). I have a linksys
>>>> router that runs batman on the eth0 interface and other routers or
>>>> laptops are connected to it. Problem is, even though the batman packets
>>>> pass from the other machines to the linksys, it seems something weird
>>>> happens on the linksys and the interface is not recognized as a batman
>>>> neighbor.
>>> the problem is that leon does not receive any packets from its
>>> neighbors. Its
>>> log only repeatedly states "Sending own packet" but no information about
>>> incoming packets is printed. If you compare it with the other logs you
>>> will
>>> see what I mean.
>> But doesn't the 'batctl td eth0' output show it receives the packets
>> from the neighbors? What happens to those packets?
>>
>>> A common mistake leading to this symptom is a bridge misconfiguration.
>>> Is eth0
>>> on leon part of a bridge ?
>> No, the bat0 interface is on the bridge, but eth0 is a vlan, I think.
>> Maybe it is a vlan misconfiguration?
>> Attached are some outputs and config files from leon. What other
>> commands should I look for to help find the problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Geneviève
>
>