OLSR mesh GUI $400 {awarded}
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17. Setting the DHCP Netmask caused DHCP not to start. After selecting a Netmask and clicking [Save], the next page showed two Netmask fields:
On the GUI…
Subnet 10.128.0.0
Subnet mask 255.248.0.0
Available range 10.128.0.0 - 10.135.255.255
Subnet Mask [24]
Range [10.130.1.10] to [10.130.1.254]From the logs…
May 17 06:16:13 dhcpd: /var/dhcpd/etc/dhcpd.conf line 9: too few numbers.
May 17 06:16:13 dhcpd: /var/dhcpd/etc/dhcpd.conf line 9: too few numbers.
May 17 06:16:13 dhcpd: subnet 10.128.0.0 netmask 24 {
May 17 06:16:13 dhcpd: subnet 10.128.0.0 netmask 24 {
May 17 06:16:13 dhcpd: ^
May 17 06:16:13 dhcpd: ^
May 17 06:16:13 dhcpd: Configuration file errors encountered -- exiting
May 17 06:16:13 dhcpd: Configuration file errors encountered -- exitingOk, that should be fixed.
16. I tried setting "Announce Dynamic Local Route" to both "10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0" and "10.130.1.0/255.255.255.0", but OLSR failed to start with either setting. I tried looking in /var/etc/olsr.conf but I didn't see the values anywhere.
Are you sure? It should be in there if it suddenly doesn't start.
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Very sure. I've tried it and looked in /var/etc/olsr.conf more than five times now just to be sure. I tried these combinations "10.130.1.0/255.255.255.0", "10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0", "10.130.1.0 / 255.255.255.0", "10.130.1.0/24" many times each with no start. One odd thing, I tried setting it to just "10.130.1.0" and also "10.130.1.0 / 24" and the service started, however there is still no sign of "10.130.1.0" in /var/etc/olsr.conf … perhaps this file isn't getting updated? As a side note, I did notice that the "Announce [self as] Dynamic Gateway" (from issue#10) is properly adding and removing the "0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0" entry from olsr.conf. (other than sometimes leaving Hna4 {} empty, see post below)
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olsr doesn't start when "Announce self as Dynamic Gateway" is Unchecked; perhaps it doesn't like the empty Hna4 { } section as below, so I guess this Hna4{ } section should be absent from the config (or auto-commented out) when ( "Announce [self as] Dynamic Gateway" unchecked AND "Announce Dynamic Local Route" is empty ):
Hna4
{}
It may be more consistant with other forms to change this entry field to two fields with drop-down on the second like:
"Announce Dynamic Local Route IP: [10.130.1.0] / [24]"
Thank you,
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olsr doesn't start when "Announce self as Dynamic Gateway" is Unchecked; perhaps it doesn't like the empty Hna4 { } section as below, so I guess this Hna4{ } section should be absent from the config (or auto-commented out) when ( "Announce [self as] Dynamic Gateway" unchecked AND "Announce Dynamic Local Route" is empty ):
Hna4
{}
Done.
It may be more consistant with other forms to change this entry field to two fields with drop-down on the second like:
"Announce Dynamic Local Route IP: [10.130.1.0] / [24]"
Thank you,
-PeteHrm. I'll look into it.
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17. DHCP is Not functioning when I choose smaller subnet mask in the drop-down box; Right now, it only works when I chose a large enough subnet to encompass both the interface subnet AND my chosen dhcp range:
My Interface IP address & netmask: 10.130.1.1 / 13
DHCP GUI:
Subnet 10.128.0.0
Subnet mask 255.248.0.0
Available range 10.128.0.0 - 10.135.255.255
Subnet Mask [24] <– I entered this.
Range [10.130.1.10] to [10.130.1.254] <– I entered these.I tried to change the subnet mask drop down box to "24" but it failed to serve dhcp and I got the following error lines in the system log {below}. 10.130.1/24 is within the "Available Range" of 10.128/13 (10.128.0.0 - 10.135.255.255), but the logs indicate that DHCP server's validation routine thinks it's available address range to serve should be limited to 10.128/24 when the Netmask is set to [24] … It appears that the DHCP server's validation checking is incorrectly applying the custom Netmask (/24) to the "Available Range" (10.128) instead of correctly validating against either the entered "Range" (10.130) OR interface IP/netmask.
System Logs...
May 18 06:44:15 dhcpd: Address range 10.130.1.10 to 10.130.1.254 not on net 10.128.0.0/255.255.255.0!
May 18 06:44:15 dhcpd: Address range 10.130.1.10 to 10.130.1.254 not on net 10.128.0.0/255.255.255.0!Since I want to set up each olsr node to serve different class-c (/24) range within the common interface range of 10.128/13, I can't be limited to only the first class-c 10.128.0.0/255.255.255.0 within the 10.128/13 range. I've never configured a DHCP server so I'm unsure what setting changes to suggest; perhaps "Subnet" field could be made changable from the default of "10.128.0.0" to either the first "Range" value "10.130.1.10" OR the interface IP/netmask OR allow me to manually enter it? If you run out of ideas, I wonder if there is there a way to simply tell the dhcp server Not to do it's Netmask validation checking, and just push my desired settings out "as is" to the dhcp client.
update: In another forum discussion, it was determined that it may not be possible to change the first two dhcp values "Subnet: 10.128.0.0" & "Subnet mask: 255.248.0.0" (which are also the actual interface subnet & subnet mask) in dhcp.conf, not even to subset values such as: "10.130.1.0/255.255.255.0". If you verify this as true, perhaps I could get around this problem by turning on pfSense DHCP Forwarding and serving the DHCP from another more flexible system; and also if true, could you verify that pfSense gui permits me to enable dhcp forwarding to the WAN interface? Thanks, -Pete
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10. When I enable "Announce self as Dynamic Gateway" it adds the "0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0" to the olsr.conf file but it fails to put Hna4 and braces around it as below:
Hna4
{
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
}Basically, here's how the olsr.conf Hna4{} entrys should look based on all possible combinations of settings:
IF ("Announce self as Dynamic Gateway"=TRUE) AND ("Announce Dynamic local route"=EMPTY)
THEN the following Hna4{} entry in olsr.conf should look like this :
Hna4
{
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
}IF ("Announce self as Dynamic Gateway"=TRUE) AND ("Announce Dynamic local route"=NOT-EMPTY: user enters "10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0")
THEN the following Hna4{} entry in olsr.conf should look like this :
Hna4
{
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0
}IF ("Announce self as Dynamic Gateway"=FALSE) AND ("Announce Dynamic local route"=NOT-EMPTY: user enters "10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0")
THEN the following Hna4{} entry in olsr.conf should look like this :
Hna4
{
10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0
}IF ("Announce self as Dynamic Gateway"=FALSE) AND ("Announce Dynamic local route"=EMPTY)
THEN remove or comment out all mention of Hna4 { … } and anything existing between the braces in olsrd.conf :
#Hna4
#{#}
As for not leaving an empty Hna4{} entry in the file, I'm only guessing it was causing olsr not to start; so it could have been some other undiscovered change made by the gui that actually caused the start failure.
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It may be more consistant with other forms to change this entry field to two fields with drop-down on the second like:
"Announce Dynamic Local Route IP: [10.130.1.0] / [24]"
[then translate the /24 into #.#.#.# before inserting into the config]" Hrm. I'll look into it. "
Thank you for considering it, althought I know what to enter in that field, i'm sure this would be somewhat less confusing for first time users.
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Ill get this stuff fixed up later today or this weekend.
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" Ill get this stuff fixed up later today or this weekend. "
Thank you. I'll check back for updates periodically then download and test. Thanks, -Pete
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Sorry I havent created an image for this yet. We've been working on some stuff all weekend. I'll get you one as soon as possible, most likely in the next 5 hours.
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" I'll get you one as soon as possible, most likely in the next 5 hours. "
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It seems that the DHCP server on WAN isn't functioning, even with the correct interface ip/subnet/mask setting. However, when I have LAN set up to do wireless the DHCP functions. I'm using pfsense-pc; I am fairly certain that dhcp on Wan was functioning in beta4, although I don't think you had the code in yet allowing me to (attempt to) modify the subnet.
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It seems that the DHCP server on WAN isn't functioning, even with the correct interface ip/subnet/mask setting. However, when I have LAN set up to do wireless the DHCP functions. I'm using pfsense-pc; I am fairly certain that dhcp on Wan was functioning in beta4, although I don't think you had the code in yet allowing me to (attempt to) modify the subnet.
Try running from a shell:
/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -user dhcpd -group _dhcp -chroot /var/dhcpd -cf /var/dhcpd/etc/dhcpd.conf $WANINTERFACE
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Thanks, I'll give that a try tomorrow at work.
We just finished installing a fair number of pfsense olsr nodes today; they're functioning quite well, DHCP & HNA4 aside. I had no trouble on the laptop when I either hardcoded ip/gateway/netmask(custom narrow) of nearest olsr node OR run olsr for windows thus making the laptop another node on the mesh.
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Thanks, I'll give that a try tomorrow at work.
We just finished installing a fair number of pfsense olsr nodes today; they're functioning quite well, DHCP & HNA4 aside. I had no trouble on the laptop when I either hardcoded ip/gateway/netmask(custom narrow) of nearest olsr node OR run olsr for windows thus making the laptop another node on the mesh.
Awesome!!!
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Image updated. Please let me know how it works.
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I'll try this today at work. I noticed that the pfsense-pc.img.gz file now contains a pfsense.ISO whereas it used to contain pfsense.IMG; will that work ok on imbedded CF?
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I'll try this today at work. I noticed that the pfsense-pc.img.gz file now contains a pfsense.ISO whereas it used to contain pfsense.IMG; will that work ok on imbedded CF?
Thanks you, -PeteNot sure but I just rebuilt and copied the image back up.
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6. This issue has crept back in.
6. I have noticed that every other I click [Save] on the OLSR configuration page it fails to start OLSR, such as: [save] starts, [save] not-started, [save] starts, [save] not-started, etc…
I would check the logs and there would be No listing for "olsrd[4494]: olsr.org - 0.4.10 successfully started".Also, one time I tried UnChecking OLSR and Saving but it wouldn't shut down.
10. I set "Announce Dynamic local route" to "10.130.1.0/255.255.255.0" and "Announce self as Dynamic Gateway"=UnChecked. However, it didn't work. It added an empty "Hna4{}" entry to the olsrd.conf file, but the values I entered were Not in oslrd.conf.
It should have added:IF ("Announce self as Dynamic Gateway"=FALSE) AND ("Announce Dynamic local route"=NOT-EMPTY: user enters "10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0")
THEN the following Hna4{} entry in olsr.conf should look like this :
Hna4
{
10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0
}I did not get a chance to check the other three possibilities yet in the following Hna4{} config logic:
Basically, here's how the olsr.conf Hna4{} entrys should look based on all possible combinations of settings:
IF ("Announce self as Dynamic Gateway"=TRUE) AND ("Announce Dynamic local route"=EMPTY)
THEN the following Hna4{} entry in olsr.conf should look like this :
Hna4
{
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
}IF ("Announce self as Dynamic Gateway"=TRUE) AND ("Announce Dynamic local route"=NOT-EMPTY: user enters "10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0")
THEN the following Hna4{} entry in olsr.conf should look like this :
Hna4
{
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0
}IF ("Announce self as Dynamic Gateway"=FALSE) AND ("Announce Dynamic local route"=NOT-EMPTY: user enters "10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0")
THEN the following Hna4{} entry in olsr.conf should look like this :
Hna4
{
10.130.1.0 255.255.255.0
}IF ("Announce self as Dynamic Gateway"=FALSE) AND ("Announce Dynamic local route"=EMPTY)
THEN remove or comment anything existing between the braces in olsrd.conf (not sure if empty Hna4 is legal syntax) :
Hna4
{}
17. I was unable to get DHCP to work on the Wan wireless interface.
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Okay, I'll look at it soon. I have a wedding to attend so I will not have much time for the next day.