Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Using batman

2007-06-06 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, #./batmand interface ath0 I simply get another command line #. Then when I try a: #ps -e I cannot see batman running as a process anywhere. Is there something that I am missing? if you don't start batman with debug mode enabled it forks into the background. All error messages are

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] securing batman gateway

2007-06-27 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, Batman has a tunnel with gateway but is it possible to secure it? In first step only clients with proper credentials can start tunnel and in second step tunnel is crypted. I agree that this would be a good idea. Using the batman tunnels would be much easier to set up than IPSec as

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] something about 0.3

2007-09-06 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, thanks for your statements, especially for kernel module (which was puzzling me). we found out that most of the CPU load caused by batman comes from sending packets. Thats why we experimented to combine our daemon with a kernel modul in order to reduce the load. Unfortunately, we found

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] running batman as non-root

2007-09-14 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I'm running batman (experimental) on a debian linux as root but want to access the debug levels (batmand -c -b -d 1) from within a apache that is not running as root. indeed a problem. As quick fix you could use sudo and allow www-data to access batmand. batman actually checks the

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3 alpha (today revison)

2007-09-22 Thread Marek Lindner
Am Samstag, 22. September 2007 20:00:04 schrieb a.anse...@oltrelinux.com: great work Marek, now client can ping outside mesh obtaining the correct IP from gateway. Thanks! God. This makes the weekend even better. ;-) Still remain the minor problem in arrangement of IPIPA subnet mask:

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3 alpha (today revison)

2007-09-24 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I hate to bother you but you were so responsive before... no problem - I'm here. :-) Antonio just put up a post. We are both seeing the same problem - computers associated with repeaters on 0.3 (MIPS) can't browse. But ssh into that node and do a wget and it works great!. If we

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] a strange case

2007-09-24 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, Is not a problem of ports or firewall (batman' stream flows well over the mesh... otherwise client node itself would not browse or would not find any other originator): iI believe problem stay in front of mesh and not inside the mesh. I've two roads to walk: ok - seems logic. :-) 1)

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batmand terminates silently

2007-09-25 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, few weeks agoe I had sometimes the problem that batmand (experimental) exits silently. Today I found maybe one reason for this. When you have batman running and insert the iptable rule iptables -I OUTPUT -o eth1 -j DROP batmand exits. This also happen for additional interfaces

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] strange default routes

2007-10-15 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, r...@openwrt:/etc/init.d# route -n Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface [...] 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 !0 0 0 * [...] batmand has been started with the following parameters: /usr/sbin/batmand -g 0 -r 0 eth2 as

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] freifunk 1.6.8/1.6.9

2007-10-16 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, i just tried both and batmand_0.3-beta-rv674 gives a segmenation fault and batmand_0.2-rv502 doesn't start (probably segfault as well). can someone confirm/deny this? has someone a link for a working (with batmand) openwrt-g-freifunk-1.6.x-x.bin/trx ? are you sure it segfaults or is it

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] strange default routes

2007-10-16 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, the problem semms to be found and very much trivial. the recent openWRT-release (or especially the ixp4xx-port ?!) as well as the rather old slackware10.2 comes _without_ policy-routing compiled into the kernel. figure this out ... an OS for embedded routers comes without advanced

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] second sliding window size

2007-10-16 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, coming from rv674 and approaching to rv719 the very first remarkable difference I see is the second number (among parenthesis) in title column Router (#/255 #/64) issuing the command: batmand -c -d 1 -b (or -d 2 looking for gateways) There is a second sliding window (size) ? yes

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Tunnel problems...

2007-10-18 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, maybe my fault... but I can't process rv733 ipk what do you mean ? On a WRT a ipkg install http://downloads.open-mesh.net/batman/development/wrt-freifunk/batmand_0.3-beta-rv733_mipsel-wr-elf-32-lsb-dynamic.ipk; does fine. On mips you use the statically linked binary which is not an ipk.

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] no gateway / tun interface / default route

2007-10-19 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, The laptop uses a proxy (squid) to only allow some URLs. Also the firewall only allows some specific ip ranges. Does this have any influence for the gateway detection? -- I dont know! No. The gateway detection itself is only influenced by the batman

AW: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batmand-exp test in the developing world

2007-11-04 Thread Marek Lindner
We experienced ~ 200% increase in cpu efficiency and ~ 300% in network efficiency between 0.4.10 and 0.5.4. c.f. http://olsr.funkfeuer.at for graphs. Wow - you are part of the marketing team ? I guess B.A.T.M.A.N. has over 1000% increase in efficiency between 0.01 and now. ;-) I'm sorry

AW: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Experiences with B.A.T.M.A.N. 0.3-beta rv767

2007-11-04 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, We playing around with B.A.T.M.A.N. 0.3-beta rv767 in our leipziger Freifunk-testing-Firmware (based on v1.6.10): the Routing works fine (if i start batmand eth1:bat vlan1:bat) - great work! exciting to hear. Keep us informed about all the trouble you experience so that we can work on

AW: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batmand-exp test in the developing world

2007-11-04 Thread Marek Lindner
We'll post a message to the list as soon as we think it is fixed and worth a try. i never saw that post (maybe i missed it?), so i only tested exp-0.3 :) Right - i think it is ready to be tested now. @Elektra: What about activating my latest routing improvement ? Heute schon

AW: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] ideas for 0.3

2007-11-04 Thread Marek Lindner
How about forwarding the average TQ-Value of the best ranking neighbor instead of the actual incoming value? This should avoid inconsistency amongst TQ-Values to a great degree! That is what we do now ! It is the reason for the 10 seconds loops. Therefore I proposed to forward the

AW: AW: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Experiences with B.A.T.M.A.N. 0.3-beta rv767

2007-11-04 Thread Marek Lindner
May be we have to set the source address explicitely. I look into that. I issued a patch. Could you test that for me (rev 779) ? At the moment I can't do it myself. Regards, Marek Machen Sie Yahoo! zu Ihrer Startseite. Los geht's: http://de.yahoo.com/set

AW: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3-beta-rv779 and rv780

2007-11-06 Thread Marek Lindner
The non-usual setup: you have different parts of your mesh operating in different subnets you need an additional ip rule to make the nodes in the non-homed subnet reachable from a node which has no interface in that subnet. So for example, if your setup looks like:

AW: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3-beta-rv779 and rv780

2007-11-06 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, For some reason (or another?) my middle unit keeps re-creating the gate0 every few seconds. Sometimes it loses it completely and sometimes it keeps it for 10 seconds or so. The furthest node from the gw keeps it's tunnel permanently configured (which is nice). to get to the bottom

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] gateway-tunnel crashes with multiple net-dev

2007-11-29 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, some thoughts regarding your problem. I debugged that issue with Björn from Leipzig and it turned out that the source of your trouble lies within your firmware configuration. On a client you can have 2 situations (regarding the tunnel): - The batman host generates traffic and sends it

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] rv791 --- rv824 incompatible?

2007-12-01 Thread Marek Lindner
[ 7946500] Is an internet gateway (class 1) [ 7946510] Drop packet: incompatible batman version (105) In revision 812 the header format was changed due to future compability issues (the version field is now the first field in the header). I'm sorry about the inconvenience - it wont

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batmand in debian

2007-12-01 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, batmand is now in Debian/unstable, see http://packages.qa.debian.org/batmand great news ! Thanks to all people involved in that process. :-) Which means, we can now prepare 0.3 for Debian/experimental, or to unstable if you you think that's better. I think unstable would be fine for

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] two-way-tunnel quirks

2007-12-01 Thread Marek Lindner
now i found an issue which i didn't relate with batman first. I got several reports of users, hotmail/msn/live.com not being accessible anymore... Yesterday i found out theres also problems with some pop server not beeing accessible, but everything works fine directly at the upstream gw,

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] rv791 --- rv824 incompatible?

2007-12-01 Thread Marek Lindner
The rv791 routes fine, but gateway make some Problems. So we included this testet version and only request the users that _want_ to use batman-gateway-tunnel tu update their batmand. (updatecheck is includet) - now our Plans are broken... :-( Sorry about that. We don't do it to explicitly

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batmand in debian

2007-12-02 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, Which means, we can now prepare 0.3 for Debian/experimental, or to unstable if you you think that's better. I think unstable would be fine for the moment or any objections ? Then 0.2 would be gone.. as I understood you, you have these two branches for a reason... if not, let's

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] two-way-tunnel quirks

2007-12-06 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, ok, set mtu on upstream gw to 1400, and everything remains as before :-( (didn't check at the upstream gw yet, but from inside the mesh i can also access hotmail when 1-way-tunnel, and not access hotmail when 2-way-tunnel) and tried another one with mtu 1200... still the same, seems not

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Basic question

2008-01-15 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, thanks for pointing that out, i cleaned the directory up and wrote a little README. :) thank you for doing so. I hope it is more understandable now. :-) The kernel module might still be a little unstable, but have fun testing. Please give us feedback about your results - even the

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman OpenWRT integration

2008-01-21 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, finally I finished updating all the batman OpenWRT packages. Additionally, you can find the tunnel kernel modul, the battools and batman advanced (layer 2) kernel module in OpenWRT now. You need the latest trunk to get these updates. We are already working on a backport to 07.09 kamikaze

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman OpenWRT integration

2008-01-28 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I was sent a backport of the batman package for OpenWRT 7.09. Download and install instructions can be found here: https://www.open-mesh.net/batman/patches Regards, Marek

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] nightly builds / update-interval?

2008-03-17 Thread Marek Lindner
On Monday, 17. March 2008 21:42:25 Bastian Bittorf wrote: New checkins are not instantly in repo. How long does it last or which algo is used to make the build-it-now!-decision? They are instantly in the repository. There is a post-commit script which builds the packages directly after each

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] bat...@gmane?

2008-03-17 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I'd like to read the b.a.t.m.a.n-list over at gmane.org, e.g. in gmane.org.freifunk.batman. I'll care about registering and stuff if nobody speaks up. its fine with me if you want to do it. Any objections from others ? Greetings, Marek

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batgat on kamikaze 7.09

2008-04-14 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I am getting the message Unable to resolve ip_hdr while trying to load batgat(r 963) on openwrt kamikaze 7.09 Batman however runs with tun module loaded. Any suggestions on what i am missing . which kernel version are you using ? Greetings, Marek

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batgat on kamikaze 7.09

2008-04-15 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I am getting the message Unable to resolve ip_hdr while trying to load batgat(r 963) on openwrt kamikaze 7.09 Batman however runs with tun module loaded. Any suggestions on what i am missing . which kernel version are you using ? Greetings, Marek

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Node keeps switching back and forth

2008-04-15 Thread Marek Lindner
In my/this case, it keeps switching from one to the other (since the quality is almost the same on each). I guess it doesn't help keeping things reliable for laptop connections behind... Playing with -r doesn't seem to help because I only have one gateway node. Correct - I misunderstood you.

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batgat on kamikaze 7.09

2008-04-15 Thread Marek Lindner
On Wednesday, 16. April 2008 04:06:41 Vinay Menon wrote: I am using 2.6.21 as with kamikaze 7.09 for MIPS We did not test with 2.6.21. The kernel modules support 2.6.22 - 2.6.24 otherwise you might have to patch the code. Greetings, Marek

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Who can help with BATMAN-ADV integration into ROBIN-FW?

2008-04-18 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I think the batman advanced topic is quite new and you wont find people that can help you easily. The first weekend in May we will have a wireless community weekend in Berlin (C-Base). I will be there and so will be Simon. We are the main developers behind the layer 2 implementation.

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Node keeps switching back and forth

2008-04-18 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I tried the RO.B.IN firmware on 4 nodes and the symptoms are the same, it's basically unusable. when did you try this ? I helped them to fix some of these problems, so I know it should be quite stable now. Does anybody have a great success story to tell me with this hardware

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3 final released

2008-05-05 Thread Marek Lindner
On Monday, 5. May 2008 21:30:44 Philippe April wrote: That's great! I'm trying it right now! (kamikaze-7.09) Planning on removing the WARNING: You are using the unstable batman branch. If you are interested in *using* batman get the latest stable release ! soon? :) Thanks for the hint - I

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3 final released

2008-05-06 Thread Marek Lindner
On Tuesday, 6. May 2008 07:22:23 donda...@reglue.org wrote: Sorry for the density, but what is the link to the batman III stable package (ipkg for openwrt/freifunk)? The pre-compiled packages will be available at: http://downloads.open-mesh.net/batman/stable in the coming days. Give us some

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3 final released

2008-05-06 Thread Marek Lindner
On Tuesday, 6. May 2008 05:57:44 Holger Levsen wrote: Holger, still more wanting signed checksums :) We updated the whole source section which includes the checksums, signatures and the vis server. Simon used his key to sign the checksums. Have fun, Marek

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3 final - quagga

2008-05-07 Thread Marek Lindner
I would prefer that you copy it over. I think it is better to keep things in one place. :) Ok, I copied it and put a note on the website. See: https://www.open-mesh.net/batman/patches I renamed the patches from experimental to needs-testing otherwise people might get confused with our

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3 final - quagga

2008-05-07 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I am mainly interested in redistributing zebra routes to batman as i do with olsr_quagga plugin. This way, i can think about switching from olsr to batman 0.3. Perhaps, you will enable it in your code again. it was never enabled - it was part of a patch. I'm not that familiar with

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3 final - quagga

2008-05-08 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, Enabling zebra to tell batmand to add/remove routes needs a patch in zebra. It would be really nice to have a batmand plugin whatever that talks to zebra for getting dynamic HNA routes. So i dont have to modify my zebra, but can enable a plugin in batmand (as it is in OLSR). Your

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3 final - quagga

2008-05-08 Thread Marek Lindner
Its a batman plugin like an olsr plugin. zebra doesnt provide any plugins imo. You provide a external switch to insert HNA by script. Unfortunately, zebra cant call external script as i have to patch zebra then - or i dont know how. with the olsr-quagga-plugin i can redistribute zebra

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3 final released

2008-05-15 Thread Marek Lindner
On Tuesday, 6. May 2008 15:27:48 Marek Lindner wrote: The pre-compiled packages will be available at: http://downloads.open-mesh.net/batman/stable in the coming days. Give us some time to recover from our release party. ;-) Now it is done - have fun with it. :-) Gruß, Marek

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] query regarding BAMAN for Mac OS X

2008-05-15 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, Is the BATMAN available for Mac OS X and windows ? the batman layer 3 implementation has initial OS X support but it is not fully functional. As we move forward to layer 2 in the kernel space a windows port seems unlikely. Is the BATMAN compatible with OLSR. Batman is a new approach

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] problems detecting gw

2008-05-21 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, 1- What is the procedure to identify gw? I have initiated the daemon in the node switched into a ethernet like -a 1.2.3.4/16 -g 7 -s 2.3.4.5 Then in other nodes I begin the daemon in second option and always No gateways in range... is displayed. on the gateway you have to activate the

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batmand 0.3-1 uploaded to Debian sid

2008-05-24 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, subject says it all, batmand 0.3-1 has been uploaded to Debian sid. well done - thanks a lot. Greetings, Marek

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batmand 0.3 + freifunkfirmware

2008-06-02 Thread Marek Lindner
On Saturday, 31. May 2008 21:12:55 donda...@reglue.org wrote: freifunk-batman is incompatible with batmand 0.3 I tried installing freifunk and the batman 0.3 package from http://downloads.open-mesh.net/batman/stable/wrt-freifunk/batmand_0.3-rv105 7_mipsel-wr-elf-32-lsb-dynamic.ipk (no freifunk

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batman-Advanced Kernel land

2008-06-05 Thread Marek Lindner
On Thursday, 5. June 2008 00:11:31 Sven Eckelmann wrote: Someone can help me? Can you please test it further? I used uml with linux 2.6.22.5 and uml_switch configured as hub to produce the same problem, but dotslash told me that he wasn't able to reproduce it with his uml image (2.6.24

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Kernel 2.6 vs 2.4

2008-06-05 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, At the same hardware, are yields obtained different, with batmand-0.3 running on Linux kernel 2.6 vs. Linux kernel 2.4 ? If so it is not related to batman. Linux 2.6 comes with considerably improvements regarding wifi driver support and performance. It is likely that you will feel

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] using routing script in addtion to batman routing rules

2008-06-25 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I have heard that you already have a similar functionality implemented in different batman branches. But this option will turn off setting the routes and rules of batmand. Can you please add/merge this functionality it to the exp-branch and perhaps add an option so that the normal

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] using routing script in addtion to batman routing rules

2008-06-25 Thread Marek Lindner
On Wednesday, 25. June 2008 20:01:02 freif...@ddmesh.de wrote: what option do I need to use the routing script for batman-ex rev1066? AFAIK batman-ex does not support this function. If you want to get it in you have to talk to Axel or patch it yourself. The sources is yours. :-) Greetings,

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Re: routing script

2008-06-25 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, As I know you can not directly trigger to change the default route. I don't know about batman-ex but batman allows that. Depending on your needs you have several options: - If you know what gateway you want you can use the -p option even at runtime: batmand [-c] -p IP - If you want that

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Multipath-Routing BATMAN-ADV

2008-07-16 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I try to research some possibilities to implement multipath-routing (MPR) to BATMAN Advanced. that sounds very cool ! Let me tell you that many people try but it seems not that easy. :-) To the first: The idea is to use two paths through the mesh and to avoid crossed. I have build

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] BATGAT

2008-09-11 Thread Marek Lindner
On Thursday, 11. September 2008 12:22:42 Outback Dingo wrote: http://pastebin.com/m1677070a batgat crashed out, and unloaded without batgat batman routes never stay That does not look like a crash ?! Is your log related to the issue mentioned by the original reporter ? He said his batmand

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batman never stabilizes a route for nodes

2008-09-12 Thread Marek Lindner
On Thursday, 11. September 2008 21:01:11 Outback Dingo wrote: Batmand never established a stable route for clients, ie. they never get reliable internet, actually to be honest, they get 0 internet cause routing always loops Please be precise here: Do you see routing loops or is your UDP

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] Remove batgat proc entries correctly

2008-09-12 Thread Marek Lindner
On Thursday, 11. September 2008 21:53:27 Sven Eckelmann wrote: We must remove the /proc/net/batgat/clients file and /proc/net/batgat dir correctly or otherwise we will get a oops when someone tries to access the file. If we do not remove the directory it is possible that more then one batgat

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] BATGAT

2008-09-12 Thread Marek Lindner
On Friday, 12. September 2008 06:18:58 Gustavo Lindberg wrote: B.A.T.M.A.N. 0.3-beta (compatibility version 5) It seems you are using an older version of the daemon together with the kernel module. 0.3-beta may not be compatible with the latest kernel module. [80] Error - can't set

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] Don't validate hardware address of batgat gate0 device

2008-09-12 Thread Marek Lindner
On Friday, 12. September 2008 22:59:45 Sven Eckelmann wrote: linux v2.6.24-rc1-1-gbada339 introduces a check for valid ethernet mac address. We don't have such a valid one because it is just a virtual gateway device which doesn't need such thing. To disable the eth_validate_addr check we can

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] Make batman timer functions thread safe

2008-09-14 Thread Marek Lindner
On Saturday, 13. September 2008 07:24:20 Sven Eckelmann wrote: The calculation inside of update_internal_clock aren't atomic and can lead to bogus time informations when many threads calling get_time_msec64 or get_time_msec. Just applied your latest patches as well. Thanks for looking over the

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] Make batman timer functions thread safe

2008-09-16 Thread Marek Lindner
On Monday, 15. September 2008 16:28:19 freif...@ddmesh.de wrote: When you find some problems in batman, can you also apply those patches to the batman-experimental branch? At moment it is running without problems for freifunk dresden. But if the network is growing perhaps some issues may cause

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] Sync hash implementation of batgat and batman-adv

2008-09-26 Thread Marek Lindner
On Friday, 26. September 2008 03:15:08 Sven Eckelmann wrote: The compare functions had a different interpretation of its return value and kmalloc can sleep inside batgat because we are running in user context of kernel. All your patches look very good - thanks (again) for your support. As far

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Problem with gateway-dhcp

2008-10-14 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, For example (can't remember the exact messages but this was about their content): Message on Gateway, Debugmode3: Gateway assigned IP adress 169.254.0.1 to client 192.168.100.2 Message on Client, Debugmode3: Got IP adress 169.254.0.1 from Gateway 192.168.100.1 so far, everything as

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Problem with gateway-dhcp

2008-10-18 Thread Marek Lindner
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

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv debian announcement

2008-11-16 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, even if the news is still some days old - its worth mentioning: batman-advanced is now available in Debian! The packages are available through your favorite dpkg frontend (apt-get, aptitude, ...) using the unstable repositories. To follow the package development you can visit the

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv debian announcement

2008-11-16 Thread Marek Lindner
On Monday 17 November 2008 00:06:37 Outback Dingo wrote: any good docs on configuring batman-adv for atheros ? We are writing it but it takes time. :-) Here the short intro: Batman advanced is not aware of the Atheros driver. On every hardware it runs in the same way. Load the module -

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] ipkg install batman over ssh: postinst fails

2008-11-16 Thread Marek Lindner
On Monday 17 November 2008 00:37:35 Jan Groenewald wrote: Is there an ipkg.conf line I can use to set the source url? Sorry, we don't have a complete ipkg repository but you can simply install the whole URL: ipkg install http://downloads.open-mesh.net/batman/package.ipk Regards, Marek

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv debian announcement

2008-11-16 Thread Marek Lindner
On Monday 17 November 2008 00:48:31 Simon Wunderlich wrote: yep, bmxd/batman0.3 and batman-adv are both not compatible to each other. Let me try to be clear at this point: You can run batman and batman-adv at the same time - no problem here. But you can't expect a batman node and a batman- adv

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] ipkg install batman over ssh: postinst failsi

2008-11-16 Thread Marek Lindner
On Monday 17 November 2008 01:12:52 Jan Groenewald wrote: OK, they seem to be running due to the nvram settings from the previous batmand. I do want them to last over flashes. This is done from the previous freifunk-batman network migration. Yes, freifunk-batman does this for you. It

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv debian announcement

2008-11-16 Thread Marek Lindner
On Monday 17 November 2008 01:22:24 Outback Dingo wrote: ok, perfectly clear, one or the other Good. :-) now last question, there is a batman-adv kernel module and a batman-adv userland am i to assume i dont need the userland if running the kernel mod or are both required Correct - you

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman-adv debian announcement

2008-11-17 Thread Marek Lindner
On Monday 17 November 2008 04:21:22 Outback Dingo wrote: whats tells batmand-advanced its actually an internet gateway ??? Here is what Simon wrote some mails ago: :-) You should know that batman-adv does not have special gateway support like the layer 3 batman versions. It can be considered

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Newbe - almost have batman up and running (almost)

2008-11-17 Thread Marek Lindner
On Monday 17 November 2008 06:48:03 Derek C wrote: Please ignore my message - I [rather stupidly] forgot to put a MASQUERADE rule into my gateway batmand board. I put that in and was working! looking good (and very easy!) so far Glad that you made it. Nat is often forgotten. I have an idea

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] My proposed network - is it ok?

2008-11-20 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I've been trying to test this idea a bit but I'm a bit concerned - does BATMAN only work with AdHoc wireless NICs? no - its does not care about the lower layers. It will run on ad-hoc, managed, ethernet, etc ... Batman also runs on multiple interfaces. Simply supply several interfaces on

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] My proposed network - is it ok?

2008-11-20 Thread Marek Lindner
On Thursday 20 November 2008 17:27:07 Derek C wrote: Overall that's great news (that I can route BATMAN over ethernet as well as wireless) - it means that if routes flap from gateway to gateway for whatever reason people will not drop connections as I'll keep the NAT at the Internet source (I

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] gateX interfaces

2008-11-22 Thread Marek Lindner
On Saturday 22 November 2008 22:27:45 Derek C wrote: Currently I'm constantly killing batmand and starting it up again (different debugging levels, etc). Sometimes I end up with a 2nd gate tunnel (so I'd have a gate0 and a gate1). I understand (guess?) that it's because I do kill -9 and

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] BATMAN routing (via gate0)

2008-11-22 Thread Marek Lindner
On Sunday 23 November 2008 00:20:55 Derek C wrote: I see that BATMAN makes a tunnel to the gateway and then routes traffic via the 169.254 gate0 subnet Does this mean that all outgoing from the node should be NATed? or is it possible for the upstream node(s) to ping the node via its true IP

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] BATMAN routing (via gate0)

2008-11-23 Thread Marek Lindner
On Sunday 23 November 2008 05:05:36 Derek C wrote: Does this mean that the mesh nodes cannot ping all the other nodes? This is if there is no routing to allow the nodes talk to far-away nodes not within their own AdHoc single-hop network? May be I was not clear enough: * You can ping every

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] BATMAN routing (via gate0)

2008-11-24 Thread Marek Lindner
Hey, How does the routing work for inter-node communications for 1 hop neighbors? If the gate0 tunnel is the default route for Internet communications how does a node know how to talk to a node two hops (or more) away (that doesn't go though the gate0 tunnel)? I can understand how it

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3.1 rv1152 - some test results

2008-11-27 Thread Marek Lindner
Hey, thought I'd just let you know what I experienced when testing rv1152 on an outdoor network with atheroses and broadcoms, olsr in parallel. Interfaces are started with ifconfig eth1:1 10.4.2.29 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 10.4.255.255 The batman test area looks something like this:

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] 0.3.1 rv1152 - some test results

2008-11-29 Thread Marek Lindner
On Saturday 29 November 2008 06:31:25 Chris W. wrote: I don't know of precompiled packages, maybe someone else does? :) well, I'll find a place ;-) Offering kernel module packages is rather cumbersome as the kernel modules has to match the given kernel _exactly_. I'm not sure how far this

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Looking for batman-adv 0.1-alpha

2008-12-05 Thread Marek Lindner
On Friday 05 December 2008 17:19:25 Tobias Gieseke wrote: I'm looking for Batman-advanced 0.1-alpha (compability version 1). We've got some meshnodes III from a company called Saxnet and they seem to work with this old version.. I can't find it in the repositories so perhaps someone can tell

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Can't build a mesh network

2008-12-18 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, its me again... I fixed my problem, that I mentioned in the previous message. I choosed the wrong interface, this was the mistake... ok, thanks for letting us know. But I have still a problem... After maybe 10 minutes, the connection is broken between the Laptop and the Routers...

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] Split SOURCE_VERSION in RELEASE- AND EXTRA_VERSION

2008-12-28 Thread Marek Lindner
Hello Sven, Afterwards the development branch should change the RELEASE_VERSION to the upcoming version number and the EXTRA_VERSION to a string which informs the user that it is unstable and in development. This could be for example -dev, -pre-alpha, -beta or -rc1. I like your patch a lot.

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Some questions to BATMAN

2008-12-30 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, my freifunk firmware is v1.6.29 and the batmand version is :B.A.T.M.A.N. 0.2 rv502 (compability version 3) please consider upgrading to the latest code. 0.2 is outdated (released May 2007). Version 0.3 is the current stable whereas the 0.3.1 release will happen in the coming days. I

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] moving to the new server - done

2009-01-07 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, as Elektras test mail indicated - the server is up and running again. We had some trouble in the beginning but we sorted it out. With the new location a few changes come along: We completely moved to a trac based website. This should reduce our maintenance burden and simpify our website

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] batman 0.3.1 released

2009-01-25 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, the B.A.T.M.A.N. team is pleased to announce the availability of batman 0.3.1 a bugfix and maintenance release. As usual, we provide precompiled packages: http://downloads.open-mesh.net/batman/stable/binaries/ as well as signed source tarballs:

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Layer 2.5

2009-01-26 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, I read some posts on the web about B.A.T.M.A.N being (or becoming) a layer 2.5 protocol, which would make it operate below IP. But, at the website and some papers I read this is not mentioned, and the impression is that it is a regular layer 3 protocol. Can anyone please clarify,

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] problem with batman test

2009-01-26 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, Adding route to 169.254.0.0/16 via 0.0.0.0 (table 254 - gate0) ^CDeleting route to 169.254.0.0/16 via 0.0.0.0 (table 254 - gate0) Error - can't delete route to 169.254.0.0/16 via 0.0.0.0 (table 254): No such process Deleting all BATMAN routes Interface deactivated: ath2 The route

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Help in batman advanced configuration

2009-01-26 Thread Marek Lindner
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 01:34:16 Gargi Purohit wrote: I hope other than setting the interface ath0 in /proc/net/batman-advanced/interfaces - i dont need any other configuration changes. Since I can batping between the two routers i guess the layer 2 connectivity is established between

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] problem with batman test

2009-01-27 Thread Marek Lindner
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 16:14:23 SoukoussMan wrote: Someone can help me to find which command is executed to add the 169.254.0.0/16 route to try to execute manually and look if i've a error ? The command line would look like this: ip route add 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 You can use logread to

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Stable adapters for Ad Hoc networks

2009-02-08 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, How about in the laptops / pcs that access the WRT54G, which make the infrastructure of the mesh? What kind of adapters do you use on them? I think Elektra made clear that the driver situation for mobile devices is much worse. We stopped promoting laptops as part of the network.

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Stable adapters for Ad Hoc networks

2009-02-08 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, Thanks for the information. At least now I have some background to work on - I already have several rt73 USB dongles, some notebooks with Atheros, some OpenMokos (which have atheros chipsets) and a few Nokia N810 tablets (which have a prism chipset). although the Openmoko

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Using batman L2 on multiple wireless cards

2009-02-12 Thread Marek Lindner
On Thursday 12 February 2009 22:58:31 Gargi Purohit wrote: however when i check the /proc/net/batman-adv/originatorsi see that all other nodes are reachable but the interface mentioned is ath1(even those which are actually reachable by ath0) shouldn't some of the boards be reachable

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Unable to connect to internet

2009-03-13 Thread Marek Lindner
Hi, r...@openwrt:~# batmand -a 192.168.0.1/24 -g 1000 -d 3 ath0 WARNING: You are using the unstable batman branch. If you are interested in *using* batman get the latest stable release ! Interface activated: ath0 Using interface ath0 with address 192.168.2.200 and broadcast address

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Problem with B.A.T.M.A.N. 0.3.1 rv1206 (compatibility version 5)

2009-03-20 Thread Marek Lindner
On Thursday 19 March 2009 21:38:14 Max wrote: Now I'm able to ping every originator in the network. The problem is derived from some iptables filters that stop the ping. Executing the following command I remove the filters solving the problem: Glad to hear that. When I launch the daemon in

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Problem with B.A.T.M.A.N. 0.3.1 rv1206 (compatibility version 5)

2009-03-21 Thread Marek Lindner
On Friday 20 March 2009 21:03:24 Max wrote: r...@meshboxa:~# batmand -c -d 4 But it does not display anything and it does not return. Moreover, no OGM packets are observed to be travelling using Wireshark. That sounds interesting - we are coming closer to the root of the problem. Did you

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] What do you think of this result?

2009-03-21 Thread Marek Lindner
On Saturday 21 March 2009 05:15:14 marco tozzini wrote: and this is the results 192.168.2.200 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 1000/928/7%, min/avg/max = 1.23/2.04/92.8 192.168.2.201 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 1000/759/24%, min/avg/max = 1.28/3.11/27.5 192.168.2.203 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 1000/766/23%, min/avg/max =

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