On 03/03/2012 04:53 AM, Marek Lindner wrote:
On Saturday, March 03, 2012 15:39:09 Nicolás Echániz wrote:
this happens with the nodes configured according to: http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/Bridge-loop-avoidance
or so we understand!
If the ethernet is used for mesh purposes uniquely why do you bother running the bridge loop avoidance at all instead of adding the ethernet interface as a regular batman interface ? The only reason why you would want the bridge loop avoidance is when you have ethernet clients that are bridged into the mesh. This does not seem to be the case. As far as I understand the ethernet cable is used as reliable "wireless cable".
Maerk thanks for your fast reply. In fact, that's how we started, that's what I meant by:
"We have also tried adding eth0 to bat0 and take it out of br-lan, which also "works" but gives routing loops from time to time."
but my english sometimes fails me :)
we also had routing loops with that setup and that's where we started to look at loop avoidance docs.
I haven't saved traceroutes from that moment; I've actually turned off the wlan0 on the MR now, but I can turn it back on and add eth0 as a batman interface to reproduce it. Is this a known issue or should this not happen in a setup where both interfaces are added to batman?