Hi Axel,
I have several WRT54GL here and I can execute something like "batmand -cbd8" as often as I want. It never hangs. Can you attach the cron file that is executed and that causes the problem?
The crontab contains an entry such like: 0-59/1 * * * * /etc/init.d/S53batmand check
this calles the following commands after another: batmand -cb -d2 >/tmp/batmand_gateway batmand -cb -d7 >/tmp/batmand_gateway batmand -cb -d8 >/tmp/batmand_gateway batmand -cb -d9 >/tmp/batmand_gateway
But I also did put these commands into an loop: while true; do batmand -cb -d2;....;done
I have also disabled this "logging" completely and let only run batmand to build up the net. I can not say if the access to the debug output leads to blocking the batmand faster.I also have seen that batmand blocks after awhile if it is only running for building the network.
I have put a logfile on my webpage. http://www.ddmesh.de/batmand-hanglog.txt
In one of the previous threads someone had a problem with "batmand going crazy". I'm not sure to remember right. But I think that it had to do with sequence number that's wrapping around. The logfile ends at the time batmand stopps. At the end of this log you will find something like "prevRxSeqno: 0, currRxSeqno-prevRxSeqno 0," perhabs it is the same reason.
batmand is currently started with two interfaces eth1 and tbb. eth1 is the wireless interface and tbb is a tun/tap device that is used by vpn tincd. tincd has got invalid hostnames, so it never creates a connection. Perhabs batmand has a problem with this kind of "dead" interfaces. I have tried to remove this tbb interface when starting batmand. batmand was running at least for two days. But the "dead" interface may also have no influence to this problem. Currently batmand is running since 10 hours with eth1 and tbb (dead interface).
I never have seen this problem with the WRT54GS, only with GL.
/Stephan