On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 07:34:51PM +0100, Axel Neumann wrote:
Hi,
On Mittwoch 14 November 2007, Jan Hetges wrote:
Hi
I did'nt find doku on that.
As i'm getting a 2nd GW :-)...
setup:
---"DMZ"
/
vsat --- gateway ------ wifi-gw --- "wifi-world" --- 2nd-wifi-gw
\
---"wifi-world-2"
I'm running bmxd-rv785 on all the wireless stuff, where wifi-gw runs
bmxd -g -blabla, but i liked to move the bmxd-gw to the cabled gw,
so if the sat-link fails, "wifi-world-2" and "DMZ" can still reach
the internet through the 2nd-wifi-gw.
So howto parametrize bmxd for devices without wireless-intrerface
usually the same parameters as for a node with a wireless interface should be
fine, like:
bmxd -g 1000 eth0:bmx eth1:bmx
You can slightly optimize the cpu consumtion and protocol-traffic-overhead by
appending the /c 100 option to the first interface parameter like:
batmand -g 1000 eth0:bat /c 100 eth1:bat
This overwrites the default configuration (/c 200) of the first interface
parameter which is assumed to be the only wlan interface. /c 200 achieves
some optimization for the path detection via wireless links.
However, on a cabled lan the protocol-traffic-overhead does not really hurt
and on a i386 architecture you will barely recognize any increased cpu
consumption.
Can i use --gateway-change-hysteresis together
with -p ?
No, --gateway-change-hysteresis can only be used with -r 3 (fast-switch
internet connection).
with -p 10.1.2.3 the gw-client will stick to its selected gw as long as its
somehow available (until it times out, as you described below).
sorry, actually my
question has to be:
can i use -p together with -r3 ?
Suggestion: in bmxd -cbd1 i saw nodes with lvld
>400 before they
get deleted, i think 180 should be more than enough, 3 minutes is plenty
of time for normal reboot, and if a node dosn't send OGMs for more
than that... it has a serious problem ;)
Well, these long timeout defaults are kind of traditional remains from
batmand-0.2. But, not constantly receiving OGMs from a distant node does not
mean that the distant node has not send some or is down. And it also does not
necessarily mean that the old route to this distant node does not work
anymore. With 0.2 we sometimes observed paths to distant nodes via which only
one OGMs was received within the current window-size (which was 128 seconds)
and still the path was somehow usable.
yes, and sometimes (actually pretty often in
some cases) there was not
even one OGM received and the path would hav been pretty usable ;-)
On the other hand we thought that it has no much
benifits to delete a stale
route (even when its definitely death). Not unless a better path is known.
primarily i'm thinking about path(s) to gw-nodes, in my case here,
i loose the vsat regularly due to power-outages and missing backup
batteries because of the energy hunger of that beast.
But i have to do "some kind of load balancing", and thought for now, it
would be the easiest to do that with -p.
Ok. 0.2 had some problems with path detection
which bmxd doesn't have :-)
cheers
--Jan