On Thursday, 26 July 2018 03:50:10 HKT Nicu Pavel wrote:
Everything works fine with 31 hosts when I add more (34 max) everything stop working, hosts start to drop, I do see a lot ICMP6 neighbor advertisement/solicitation. I increased the default values for elp_interval and orig_interval to 5 and 10 seconds. Once I power down the extra host(s) everything goes back to normal. The actual traffic in the mesh beside the ICMP6 is low a few KB sent once per minute.
There is no hard-coded host limit in batman-adv. It is more likely to do with your wifi driver. What wifi chip & driver have you deployed ?
If you check the mailing list archives you will see the wifi driver issue coming up on a regular basis. This example discussion is merely a few days old:
https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2018-July/017952.html
Cheers, Marek