Greetings all-

We've been playing around here with a bunch of nodes and recently at our repeater site, we've installed a Grid and Omni on the tower. I've seen the info regarding DTD Linking and figured with our setup that would be a better approach to tying the nodes together instead of RF.

Here's our setup: BulletM2 on 24dBi grid and BulletM2 on 9dBi Omni. In the shack we have a WRT54. I added patch cables from the Bullets' POEs and plugged them into Ports 3 & 4 on the Linksys.

Under current neighbors I see the nodes via RF and dtdlink. I've seen that traffic has passed via DTD as ETX numbers have came down considerably. However, it seems doing this crashes the nodes into non-existence after a short time (the Bullets are not even accessible even when directly connected to my laptop). Am I missing something in the whole scheme of DTD (ie., should we just be using L2 switches to tie the devices in or disable something in the Linksys or something on the Bullets)?? From all I've read it seems like all we should have to do is connect Ethernet together and go.

TIA,

John W3RC

You are likely seeing BBHN->ticket:59 where the olsr shuts down depending upon number of nodes in network.

In addition only one node can have a DHCP server running on a LAN.

If you power up a second node after one is already running and they are connected together already the onboard DHCP server detects that another dhcp server is already running and will not issue dhcp addresses I till rebooted.  If you used static addressing you should be able to access it directly.  This is more likely than the node dying.

Sorry for the multi-posts, was trying to update nodes, talk on repeater, post note to forum, and watch a 2 year old all at once. And, apparently my cell phone hates me LOL.  So far v3 is running smoothly. RF only, not trying DTDLink yet. I would like to get a baseline of operation first, then take the next step. I'll start a new thread on v3 in the appropriate place if needed and update DTDLink finds here in this post.

73,

John W3RC

What is the node count on your mesh? Ideally send the olsr-topology-view image.

http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/download/firmware/olsr-topology-view

ae6xe@cox.net

Correct,

Due to the issues with the onboard switch on Linksys devices DTDLink ships in a disabled state in the 3.0.0 beta build.

Please see http://ubnt.hsmm-mesh.org/products/BBHN/wiki/HowTo/Enable%20DTDLINK%20on%20Linksys for the current procedure to enable DTDLINK on Linksys

"just 2 olsr restarts reported"

thats excessive on it's own, so maybe more useable but goes to show something much more than OLSR secure was at work, just enough of a solution to let things run but FAR from a fix...

No worries,

We are very much attempting to embrace a more open development environment than had been seen with the group in the past so feedback, comments, suggestions, etc are welcomed.

i think you are reffering to this commit

http://olsr.org/git/?p=olsrd.git;a=commit;h=2beaac8b9b1b9eef09e312b165fe61e3fef99eda

Which is actually in the Quagga module only. Quagga is another routing daemon and we don't utilize it and we don't load the quagga module so if this is the one you mean it should not be related.  If it's a different unrelated commit than honestly I haven't seen it and would love the pointer as i would certainly consider it relevant.