On Wednesday 15 October 2008 21:26:01 Tobias Gieseke wrote:
-Do I have to start the batmand with the WAN-Interface (vlan1)? Meaning: batmand -g 10mbit eth1 vlan1
No, that is unnecessary. Whenever the batman gateway receives packets for the internet it simply adds them to the routing queue. The kernel itself will handle further routing.
-Do I have to announce the 192.168.208.0/24 net with batman? (I guess not)
Not really unless you want to get a connection to a distinct node other than the internet gateway. Remember: you also need a route back if you do so.
-Do I have to set the DNS-Server manualy or is the gateway acting as DNS
DNS handling is not part of batman. You need to set appropriate DNS entries on the clients.
I'm sorry this turns out to be more a routing problem than a batman/mesh problem. Hope you help me anyway.
Sure, no problem. Let us know whether it solves your problem or not.
Regards, Marek
Hi again,
it is still not running :-( but I was able to specify the problem in more detail. First a short summary of what the problem is: I got one client connected to a gateway over batman-mesh. Tunnel (gate0) is established an has assigned correct IP-Adresses. Problem: I am able to ping the gateways WAN-Interface, but I am not able to ping the Standard-Gateway of the WAN. The ping to the WAN-Gateway is not leaving the WAN-Interface of the gateway (I sniffed that with Wireshark).
Strange: When I'm setting up the Network without Batman (setting a fixed gateway on the client) I can ping the Gateway in the WAN. As soon as I start the batmand with -g on the Mesh-Gateway the ping stops. Besides, the ping does not end up in an error-message it just doesn't answer.
In my last test I "replaced" the WAN (which was actually our company-LAN) with another SoHO-Router. So the WAN is now represented by this Router. I did this to aviod complications with already assigned networks.
Still a routing problem, but any kind of help would be nice. Thanks!
Tobi
On Friday 17 October 2008 20:37:10 Tobias Gieseke wrote:
Strange: When I'm setting up the Network without Batman (setting a fixed gateway on the client) I can ping the Gateway in the WAN. As soon as I start the batmand with -g on the Mesh-Gateway the ping stops. Besides, the ping does not end up in an error-message it just doesn't answer.
It sounds like your ping is going in the right direction but there is no route back (the host that wants to send an answer has no routing information to route the packet back to its origin). Usually, you can solve that by adding routes at the other end or via NAT.
Its rather difficult to help you that way. I suggest you join our IRC channel on irc.freenode.org. You will find us in the #batman channel. There we can debug your problems interactively. :-)
Regards, Marek
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