[Commotion-dev] meshing over ethernet

Dan Staples danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
Mon Jun 30 10:09:02 EDT 2014


+1 to what Chris said. That seems to be exactly the problem we saw
recently, with the firewall fix detailed in that Github issue.

Dan

On 06/30/2014 06:22 AM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> This sounds like the same issue we encountered in a recent mesh
> deployment at AMC. It may be a firewall zone bug specific to meshing
> over ethernet. This may help diagnose/fix:
> 
> https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-router/issues/128
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon 30 Jun 2014 04:23:56 AM EDT, miles wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm having problems with the following mesh
>> Subnet -> wifi -> Device F ->ethernet link -> Device C -> wifi link -> Device A or Device E
>>
>> C gets updates from F, A and E.   Route table looks good & it can connect to Subnet and the other routers. 
>>
>> F  only gets routes for C. 
>> A gets routes only for  E. 
>> E gets routes only for A
>>
>> all hosts are using the same serval keyring & signing key.  All are rc1.1r2. 
>> Each node has a wired ether interface and a mesh interface.  The wired interface is unplugged except for nodes F & C. 
>>
>> I suspect that part of my problem may be with HNA. 
>> https://commotionwireless.net/docs/cck/installing-configuring/common-configuration/ suggests disabling HNA for both devices in "Two wireless devices meshed over an ethernet connection".  This seems counter intuitive. Don't I still want to announce both AP subnets? 
>>
>> Any suggestions where I should look for problems? 
>>
>>
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