1 Dec
2020
1 Dec
'20
10:44 a.m.
A node is
connected to Internet gateway A, but it also has access to
Internet gateway B. If gateway A fails, how long does it take to start
using gateway B?
Hi Amuza!
To my understanding there will be no switch at all.
This has been discussed here [1] but it was not implemented.
This feature was present in the previous releases for
BMX6 [2] (and BMX7
[3]) something similar is present for Batman-adv [4] (no idea in which
case this makes sense, as seems that "Batman-adv only" networks are not
supported [5]).
All these old packages used the watchping package for checking internet
connection.
Now we have the check-internet script which is much more reliable [6].
I am not sure how a "babeld-auto-gw" could communicate to Babeld to stop
sharing the default (0.0.0.0/0) route.
I can think of two ways:
1) edit the kernel route (e.g. increasing the metric and setting
"reflect-kernel-metric true" Babeld option) and then send a SIGUSR2 to
Babeld process (see [7] for Babeld manual)
2) edit the Babeld configuration via UCI for stopping the distribution
of the default route and instruct Babeld to reload configuration (the
init script will automatically do so once the uci configuration is
edited and reload_config is executed, otherwise it can be done manually
with /etc/init.d/babeld reload [8]).
Unfortunately I don't understand some technical things there.
I don't know what to do now. I really did not expect this feature could
be gone. I guess I would need some kind of step-by-step guide with more
detailed explanations to fix this. But I'm not sure if that will be
possible or worth it, so I guess the easiest thing for me now it is to
go back to LiMe 17.06 or 16.07.
libremesh.org website has 17.06 as its latest official release, however
the compiling instructions are for newer versions, and the chef is not
there any more, so how could I customise 17.06 so that it contains my
network configuration?
I agree that this feature would be verrrrry useful.
It feels good to read that! Thank you!
We could continue
the discussion on the issue [1].
Ciao!
Ilario
[1]:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/issues/93
[2]:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/tree/master/packages/bmx6-auto-g…
[3]:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/tree/master/packages/bmx7-auto-g…
[4]:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/tree/master/packages/batman-adv-…
[5]:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/issues/666
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/issues/468
[6]:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/tree/master/packages/check-inter…
[7]:
https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/babel/babeld.html
[8]:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/procd-init-scripts#specifying_trig…