<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr">Greetings.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr">I have been tasked with a project to create a mesh network of raspberry pi computers for use in some testing environments here at work. I will not pretend to be any kind of an expert on anything involving mesh networks, general networking, linux or any part of this, I am just the guy whose lap this landed on. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr">I have spent a lot of time reading around and quite a bit of time experimenting, and I am having some trouble getting stability out of this system. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr">At present I have 4 pi machines, though I want to expand it to a dozen or so. Each pi is using raspbian, babeld, ahcpd, and a ralink rt5370 wifi dongle with a driver that I compiled from the source provided by mediatek. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr">Sometimes everything works. Sometimes I can bring up each pi and everyone receives both an ipv6 address and an ipv4 address through AHCPD and I can ping and communicate. Traffic seems to be hopping from one connection to another etc. However, inexplicably we will lose communication across part or often all of the network. I will see all the machines in the routing table, both the ipv4 table and the ipv6 table. I can watch nodes enter and leave as they are powered off and on. But I lose all ability to ping or do any other kind of communication. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr">I am at a loss as to why these nodes can clearly see each other and communicate enough to pass out addresses, but be unable to ping or do other kinds of communication. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr">I have spent days reading everything I can find, and clearly this is a system that is working in many applications around the world, and other people aren't posting anything I can see with a similar problem. This leads me to conclude that obviously I am doing something wrong, or failing to understand something crucial. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr">If there is any assistance provided I would greatly appreciate anything pointing me in the right direction, any additional reading material I have overlooked. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1422561212259_4193" dir="ltr">I would be happy to provide any configuration details that might be applicable, though most things are pretty close to default. </div></div></body></html>