[Trac #1102] mesh routing/forwarding seizes after a few hours

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#1102: mesh routing/forwarding seizes after a few hours
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 Reporter:  mbletsas  |        Owner:  jcardona 
     Type:  defect    |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal    |    Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  distro    |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:            |  
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Comment (by mbletsas):

 Changing the ssid on msh0 seems to bring it back to life:

 [root at mshy16 ~]# iwconfig msh0 essid ffoobar
 [root at mshy16 ~]# iwconfig
 lo        no wireless extensions.

 eth0      no wireless extensions.

 eth1      MRVL-USB8388  ESSID:"ffoobar"  Nickname:""
           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Cell: 02:2E:0E:B3:6E:6E
           Bit Rate:24 Mb/s   Tx-Power=18 dBm
           Retry limit:8   RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=-2 dBm  Noise level=-2 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:9957611
           Tx excessive retries:89221  Invalid misc:223780   Missed
 beacon:0

 msh0      MRVL-USB8388  ESSID:"ffoobar"  Nickname:""
           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Cell: 02:2E:0E:B3:6E:6E
           Bit Rate:24 Mb/s   Tx-Power=18 dBm
           Retry limit:8   RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
           Encryption key:off
           Power Management:off
           Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=-2 dBm  Noise level=-2 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:9957683
           Tx excessive retries:89221  Invalid misc:223780   Missed
 beacon:0

 [root at mshy16 ~]# ping mshy1
 PING mshy1 (10.1.25.67) 56(84) bytes of data.
 64 bytes from mshy1 (10.1.25.67): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=57.6 ms
 64 bytes from mshy1 (10.1.25.67): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=5.98 ms

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1102#comment:2>
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