2011/11/19 Antonio Quartulli ordex@autistici.org:

Hello Filippo,

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 08:22:41 +0100, Filippo Sallemi wrote:

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Hi, I'm just working on script that try to autorecover the node in case of failure and I noticed something very strange. Ii have 3 node setted to channel 3. Well when I change the channel of one of these nodes for example from 3 to 5 after some time I can see however the entirely topology of my network.

How it is possible? My script is not ready and iwconfig output show the changed channel!!!!

apparently do not have the same behavior if channel is far from other nodes (es 6)

This is very very strange for me!

I know you are testing batman-adv on your network, but this particular issue is not strictly related to batman anymore..

However I'd say that, since channels overlap (yes they do), it is possible that some devices overhear packets (not all of course) from near channels too. If you want to be sure that overlapping is not happening, you should choose channel 1, 7 and 13.

By the way this is just my explanation. Could be not correct.

Cheers,

-- Antonio Quartulli

..each of us alone is worth nothing.. Ernesto "Che" Guevara

I agree with Antonio explanation, I think the cause can be the following: The node that changes channel start sending beacon containing the new channel, if the channel is near the previous one, they are partially overlapping so probably neighbor nodes are able to receive beacon and consequently changes their channel. This cannot happen if you choose non overlapping channel.

Also a possible solution can be to fix the channel on every node in the ad-hoc network, not only the essid, so every node maintains the channel set at start-up.

Regards