Yes, the settings were all related to the madwifi drivers but it looks like I was wrong, I'm back to square one, my nodes are not reliable at all even after the tweaks. Sometimes I think I have it and it's stable for hours, and then for some reason it stops working.
Most of the time the ad-hoc network (for the mesh) is reliable (the nodes themselves are fine) but laptop clients can't associate to the nodes or the connection is flaky!
On my mac, it keeps disassociating and associating every 2 seconds... But this only happens sometimes!
I tried the RO.B.IN firmware on 4 nodes and the symptoms are the same, it's basically unusable.
Does anybody have a great success story to tell me with this hardware (FON/Accton with Atheros) and mesh networks? B.A.T.M.A.N seems to be the only thing stable in my setup after all :)
On 16-Apr-08, at 12:29 PM, Vinay Menon wrote:
Hi Philippe,
My gateway is a old fonera and nodes are meraki. I am using kamikaze 7. 09 with 2.6.21 Kernel .
The tweaks you speak of are they related to madwifi drivers I had diversity and stuff ON on the nodes
Which I changed on the nodes but they dont seem to help.
Would be great if you could tell me more about the radio settings and firewall rules (which I suspect is crashing my gateway )
Regards,
Hi Vinay,
What kind of hardware are you running this on? I had a lot of problems when it switched route until I tweaked some radio settings and FW rules, it seems better now.
On 16-Apr-08, at 4:40 AM, Vinay Menon wrote:
Philippe...seems your problem and mine are similar hence continuing posting in
this thread,if you feel its different please tell me ill repost as a new thread.
My network setup is as shown
Gateway 10.24.249.96
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50ft |
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Node 1 (10.1.125.158)
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25ft |
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Node 2 (10.1.52.)236
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