[Commotion-dev] Merged olsrd branch commotion + release-0.6.6
Ben West
ben at gowasabi.net
Thu Apr 24 13:11:20 EDT 2014
Apologies for previous pollution on olsrd commit logs. Github to push my
local merged branch directly to your repo.
Here is the PR for olsrd v0.6.6.1:
https://github.com/opentechinstitute/olsrd/pull/22
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net> wrote:
> So far, the specific atheros repeater node where I'd been having apparent
> SmartGateway issues seems to be OK now after upgrading its local olsrd to
> v0.6.6.1 yesterday (along with the same on the affected gateway nodes). It
> does indeed look like the SmartGateway updates have yielded improvement for
> my situation.
>
> I should point out that *option 'SmartGatewayUseCount' '1'* is needed to
> tell the newer SmartGateway code to only use one gateway at a time. The
> OLSR folks are now testing out multiple gateway nodes simultaneously in
> HEAD, but I believe it doesn't play wall with typical NAT configurations,
> so just use one gateway at a time for now.
>
> The rationale for the timing tweaks from Ferry are somewhat opaque to me.
> The old ROBIN mesh firmware using olsrd v0.5 did deploy similar tweaks:
>
> https://trac.assembla.com/RobinMesh/browser/trunk/robin/robin-mesh/files/etc/config/olsr
>
> 16<https://trac.assembla.com/RobinMesh/browser/trunk/robin/robin-mesh/files/etc/config/olsr#L16>config
> "olsr" "interface" 17<https://trac.assembla.com/RobinMesh/browser/trunk/robin/robin-mesh/files/etc/config/olsr#L17>
> option HelloInterval '2.0'18<https://trac.assembla.com/RobinMesh/browser/trunk/robin/robin-mesh/files/etc/config/olsr#L18>
> option HelloValidityTime '40.0'19<https://trac.assembla.com/RobinMesh/browser/trunk/robin/robin-mesh/files/etc/config/olsr#L19>
> option TcInterval '5.0' 20<https://trac.assembla.com/RobinMesh/browser/trunk/robin/robin-mesh/files/etc/config/olsr#L20>
> option TcValidityTime '100.0'21<https://trac.assembla.com/RobinMesh/browser/trunk/robin/robin-mesh/files/etc/config/olsr#L21>
> option MidInterval '18.0'22<https://trac.assembla.com/RobinMesh/browser/trunk/robin/robin-mesh/files/etc/config/olsr#L22>
> option MidValidityTime '324.0' 23<https://trac.assembla.com/RobinMesh/browser/trunk/robin/robin-mesh/files/etc/config/olsr#L23>
> option HnaInterval '18.0'24<https://trac.assembla.com/RobinMesh/browser/trunk/robin/robin-mesh/files/etc/config/olsr#L24>
> option HnaValidityTime '108.0'
> Antonio from ROBIN published a the calculations behind these timings on
> his wiki http://wiki-robin.meshroot.com/ , but unfortunately that site
> now seems lost to the sands of time (and likewise to archive.org).
>
> It is likely these params are unnecessary. I was initially wanting to
> mimic Ferry's suggested config to rule out problems.
>
> I can see about making the PR to the commotion branch later today.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Josh King <jking at opentechinstitute.org>wrote:
>
>> Hey Ben,
>>
>> How about you open a pull request against the 'commotion' branch in
>> upstream? I'll go ahead and test and then merge that into the rc2
>> testing images I'm working on.
>>
>> Also, I'm interested in the defaults you got from Ferry in the config
>> file below. Is there a rationale behind those that exists somewhere?
>>
>> On 04/22/2014 12:25 PM, Ben West wrote:
>> > Thus far only deployed to a handful of atheros 802.11g nodes running
>> > r40431 OpenWRT AA (i.e. not commotion-router proper, nor yet on ar71xx
>> > target, nor with olsrd-mdp plugin). The specific failure I was seeing
>> > on an atheros repeater node has not recurred yet, although I only
>> > reflashed it a couple hours ago. I can at least say that v0.6.6.1 is
>> > working just fine on those nodes previously running olsrd v0.6.5-4. No
>> > obvious regression.
>> >
>> > Here is the /etc/config/olsrd I'm using, for your reference, based on
>> > advice from Ferry Huberts:
>> >
>> > config olsrd
>> > # uncomment the following line to use a custom config file instead:
>> > #option config_file '/etc/olsrd.conf'
>> >
>> > option 'IpVersion' '4'
>> > option 'LinkQualityLevel' '2'
>> > option 'LinkQualityAlgorithm' 'etx_ffeth'
>> > option 'SmartGateway' 'yes'
>> > option 'SmartGatewayUseCount' '1'
>> > option 'Pollrate' '0.1'
>> > option 'TcRedundancy' '2'
>> > option 'MprCoverage' '5'
>> > option 'LinkQualityFishEye' '0'
>> >
>> > config 'LoadPlugin'
>> > option 'library' 'olsrd_arprefresh.so.0.1'
>> >
>> > config 'LoadPlugin'
>> > option 'library' 'olsrd_dyn_gw.so.0.5'
>> > option 'HNA' '0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0'
>> >
>> > config 'LoadPlugin'
>> > option 'library' 'olsrd_nameservice.so.0.3'
>> > #option 'resolv_file' '/tmp/resolv.conf.auto'
>> > option 'sighup_pid_file' '/var/run/dnsmasq.pid'
>> > option 'suffix' '.mesh'
>> >
>> > config 'LoadPlugin'
>> > option 'library' 'olsrd_txtinfo.so.0.1'
>> > option 'port' '2006'
>> > option 'Accept' '127.0.0.1'
>> >
>> > config 'Interface'
>> > list 'interface' 'wan'
>> > option 'Mode' 'ether'
>> >
>> > config 'Interface'
>> > list 'interface' 'mesh'
>> > option 'Ip4Broadcast' '255.255.255.255'
>> > option 'Mode' 'mesh'
>> > #peformance-tuned params from Ferry Huberts <mailings at hupie.com
>> > <mailto:mailings at hupie.com>>
>> > option HelloInterval '2.0'
>> > option HelloValidityTime '20.0'
>> > option TcInterval '5.0'
>> > option TcValidityTime '30.0'
>> > option MidInterval '5.0'
>> > option MidValidityTime '50.0'
>> > option HnaInterval '5.0'
>> > option HnaValidityTime '15.0'
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Josh King <
>> jking at opentechinstitute.org
>> > <mailto:jking at opentechinstitute.org>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hey Ben,
>> >
>> > That sounds great. Have you tried it out on any images yet? I was
>> going
>> > to start rolling 1.1rc2 images maybe later today, and if that
>> release
>> > fixes some SmartGateway bugs then it might be worth including.
>> >
>> > On 04/22/2014 11:56 AM, Ben West wrote:
>> > > Howdy,
>> > >
>> > > I'd been having problems with the v0.6.5-4 version of olsrd in
>> > OTI's git
>> > > repo having sporadic gateway problems using the SmartGateway
>> feature,
>> > > specifically with repeater nodes seeing their route to the
>> Internet
>> > > occasionally broken in the presence of multiple gateway nodes.
>> > >
>> > > Some responses on the olsr-users listserv indicated quite a few
>> > > improvements to SmartGateway in the v0.6.6 release, especially for
>> > > situations with multiple gateway nodes, so I made a merged branch:
>> > >
>> > > https://github.com/opentechinstitute/olsrd/tree/commotion
>> > > +
>> > >
>> http://olsr.org/git/?p=olsrd.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/release-0.6.6
>> > > =
>> > > https://github.com/westbywest/olsrd/tree/commotion-0.6.6
>> > >
>> > > (New branch name "commotion-0.6.6")
>> > >
>> > > Posting here in case there is interest to push this branch
>> upstream to
>> > > OTI's repo too.
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Ben West
>> > > http://gowasabi.net
>> > > ben at gowasabi.net <mailto:ben at gowasabi.net>
>> > <mailto:ben at gowasabi.net <mailto:ben at gowasabi.net>>
>> > > 314-246-9434 <tel:314-246-9434> <tel:314-246-9434 <tel:
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>> > >
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>> > Ben West
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>> Josh King
>> Lead Technologist
>> The Open Technology Institute
>> http://opentechinstitute.org
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>
>
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> Ben West
> http://gowasabi.net
> ben at gowasabi.net
> 314-246-9434
>
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