[Babel-users] ad-hoc networks behave like mesh using babel?

[Harshal Vora]

Hi Juliusz,

Thanks for the guidance.
Few pointers:

1) I waited for almost 10 minutes but Babel does not seem to recover 
from the ! routes automatically.
It does so only when I restart the babel daemon

2) -S seems to be working fine.
But the issue is the state file is written only when we shut down the 
daemon and it is erased when we again start the daemon
if someone pulls the plug of the host or the host crashes, there is no 
state file written and we are back to the original problem
Is there any solution for this apart from using the -r option?

Regards.

On Wednesday 08 January 2014 07:33 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>> The ! route problem seems to occur during startup of a host.
> That's normal if you're not putting the state file in persistent
> storage (you're losing your seqno when you reboot, and Babel's loop
> avoidance mechanism gets confused).  Babeld should recover from this
> after 3 minutes at most.
>
> The proper solution is to point babeld at a persistent filesystem
> using the -S command-line flag.  If that's not possible, you can work
> around the issue by using the random-id config file directive or
> the -r command-line flag.
>
> -- Juliusz