[B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv not selecting a gateway when using "client 1" through uci config

["Nicolás Echániz" <nicoechaniz@codigosur.org>]

Hi everyone,

I've been experimenting with gateway selection in QuintanaLibre. I have
a very bad gateway that I want to work as a last resort gateway when the
other is down, so I tried changing to gw_mode client 1 and used some
unreal values for the Up/Down speeds to "force" the selection.

Anyway, this is all well, the good gateway gets selected from almost all
the mesh, but the problem is that when I updated the client routers
configuration using uci to make it permanent, I stumbled with this
strange result that you can see here:

http://pastebin.com/pEhcq2TW


there's no gateway being selected until I manually run:
# batctl gw_mode client 1
(which was te current mode anyway)
on each client.

In fact, connected computers are not being served DHCP offers because of
this.

Is this some known behavior or just something I overlooked?


Thanks as ever for your help with batman-adv, which here at the far
south we are loving every day more as little mesh clouds keep spawning
around us :)


Cheers,
NicoEchániz