I've got several Gateworks Avila GW2348-4 boards. I am building Kamikazee 7.09 for them, and will be running olsrd. Some rough edges with olsrd, but I think I've got workarounds. But what I don't understand is the issues I am seeing on the wired side - massive packet loss in ping (about 1/3 of the packets get dropped), but using iperf is even stranger - a nice 94.5 mbits/sec with tcp (on a 60 second test), but if I try udp, I get a lousy 1.05 mbits/sec on the same one minute test. Both of these tests were repeated several times with similar results.

I've tried all different arrangements I can think of, replacing every component in the test - so it's unlikely to be a hardware failure. I've also tried using the default linux OS that comes with the gateworks board, and it doesn't have any ping losses. So, there's something screwy with OpenWRT.

Has anyone else noticed this problem? Could someone who has this board try some ping & iperf tests and see if they can duplicate my problem? If you don't see the problem, can you tell me the version and config of openwrt you're using?

Thanks Much,
Bob

Sounds like a driver bug.  What were the kernel versions (OpenWrt and the default linux)

Use trunk.

I would use trunk, except that olsrd is still missing, and that's the whole point of my project. I've gone back to r11970, which seems to have none of the ethernet problems and still includes olsrd. But it's still got a broken ImageBuilder. It's also still broken in that you can't build large images to start with, due to it trying to build images for other profiles with more restricted ram, so I am building small images, booting them, and then loading in packages with a script I wrote. All in all, it's quite a messy situation...and I don't like messes.

Looking at recent changes in trunk since I had first posted this message, I svn up'd, (r12280) and olsrd is still missing. So, it's 11970 for me, for now, ugly as working without a proper ImageBuilder is.