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From: Tobias <tracer@robotech.de>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv 2011.2.0 hop somtimes does not work
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:44:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E5E64EF.2010706@robotech.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKeC-QGag_c+g93MbiJWL9HB3iOczbfbatYUAA1wEEFSyvyd2g@mail.gmail.com>

Am 31.08.2011 17:57, schrieb wayne abroue:
> 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
Hi Wayne,

the signal level is not very good - but it should be sufficient. (around 
40-60%)

Even when i keep both pings running at the same time, only the "batctl 
p" works.

Tobias

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-31 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-30 22:53 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv 2011.2.0 hop somtimes does not work Tobias
2011-08-30 23:07 ` clownix
2011-08-31  9:55 ` Marek Lindner
2011-08-31 15:57   ` wayne abroue
2011-08-31 16:07     ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-08-31 16:16       ` Marek Lindner
2011-08-31 16:18         ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-08-31 17:05           ` Tobias
2011-08-31 21:55             ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-08-31 22:14               ` Javier Cardona
2011-09-01  8:15               ` Tobias
2011-09-01 15:55                 ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-09-01 21:11                   ` Tobias
2011-09-01 21:35                     ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-09-01 22:45                       ` Tobias
2011-09-05  8:06                         ` Marek Lindner
2011-09-06  9:06                           ` Tobias
2011-09-06 18:33                             ` Marek Lindner
2011-09-07  8:00                               ` Tobias
2011-09-13 11:18                                 ` Marek Lindner
2011-09-13 12:09                                   ` Andrew Lunn
2011-09-14 20:54                                   ` Tobias
2011-09-19 22:45                                     ` Antonio Quartulli
     [not found]                                       ` <4E7ED5D3.2000600@wifibot.com>
     [not found]                                         ` <20110925073942.GA2993@ritirata.org>
     [not found]                                           ` <4E7EE7A9.7010309@wifibot.com>
2011-09-25 16:05                                             ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-09-25 16:06                                               ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: Chichek hunt started! Verbose patch Antonio Quartulli
2011-08-31 16:44     ` Tobias [this message]
2011-08-31 16:54       ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv 2011.2.0 hop somtimes does not work wayne abroue
2011-08-31 16:36 ` Tobias
2011-10-19 13:36 ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-09-26 21:07 laurent
2011-09-26 21:14 ` laurent
2011-09-26 22:48   ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-10-10 12:08     ` Antonio Quartulli
2011-09-27  6:01 ` Andrew Lunn
2011-09-27  6:39   ` laurent

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