Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Mesh hickups with 2014.3

["Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:04:48PM +0200, Bjoern Franke wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> > There's a hash_max value for the bridge
> > (/sys/class/net/<br>/bridge/hash_max). By default it's rather
> > small, just 512 entries / multicast listeners, so it's expected that
> > with 500 nodes the bridge multicast snooping will shut down.
> 
> Thanks for your reply, I increased the value now to 4096 on the
> gateways.
> 
> > Nevertheless, even if the bridge deactivates its multicast
> > snooping that shouldn't cause trouble for ICMPv6.
> > 
> > Which firmware are you using, do you see ICMPv6 packets entering
> > bat0 on the gateway and leaving bat0 on the router?
> 
> We are running gluon 2014.4 on the routers. 

Okay. In Gluon both the batman-adv multicast optimizations and
bridge multicast snooping are deactivated by default. So I think
it's probably an issue with the bridge on your gateway. Does
deactivating the batman-adv and bridge multicast stuff make a
difference?

Which kernel version and Linux distribution are you using on the
gateway?

> 
> I see solicitations and advertisements on the gateway:
> 16:59:54.567582 IP6 fd74:fdaa:9dc4:0:fa1a:67ff:feeb:c77e >
> ff02::1:ff40:1: ICMP6, neighbor solicitation, who has
> fd74:fdaa:9dc4::40:1, length 32
> 16:59:54.567661 IP6 fd74:fdaa:9dc4::40:1 >
> fd74:fdaa:9dc4:0:fa1a:67ff:feeb:c77e: ICMP6, neighbor advertisement,
> tgt is fd74:fdaa:9dc4::40:1, length 32

Measured on bat0 or on the bridge on top?

> 
> Unfortunately it's not possible to access the router at the moment to
> have look what's leaving on bat0 there.
> 
> Regards
> Björn

Cheers, Linus

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