The problem was that babeld assumed bat0 as a wired interface so when 2 or 3 packet was lost it marked the route as unreachable, now the problem is fixed thanks to a patch from julius
by the way it is not normal that batman loss packet on wired links and I think we should do some debug to understand what is happening...
I am going to do some test as ordex said trying to make things clear
On 08/06/2012 03:43 PM, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 03:05:49PM +0200, Gioacchino Mazzurco wrote:
Hi all!
I am experiencing a multicast packet loss on batman-adv mesh, this can appear normal but it is not because the mesh is on top of wired Ethernet link!
the host fe80::c8e0:2cff:fe9b:6d1f is sending a multicast hello message every 4 seconds on bat0 interface, but as you can see from the dump timing on a machine attached on the same switch they are not arriving regurarly so what is happening? Is this normal?
Hello Gioacchino,
I'd say that losing packets is not normal :-) Have you tried to use batctl td on the wired interface? You should see the "broadcast" packets going around. It would be interesting to understand if on batctl you had more packets than what you are receiving on the node.
Cheers,
p.s. what kind of hello messages are they? Their size is changing over time..