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Derivative of the ROBIN Mesh Firmware http://wiki-robin.meshroot.com/
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Restart olsrd when gateway node internet access restored #15

Open westbywest opened 9 years ago

westbywest commented 9 years ago

Existing ROBIN mesh v2 checkin scripts can detect when internet service goes out (e.g. ping to 8.8.8.8). Something weird about olsrd on a gateway node seems to cause it to break repeater nodes' route to internet if the gateway node loses its own internet connection, but then gets it back shortly thereafter (1hr).

Workaround is to have ROBIN checkin scripts restart olsrd on gateway node after Internet outage resolved.