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Please read the entire thread and then come back with questions:
https://lists.open-mesh.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org/thread/6IR5GCSI2QA2ZV4LMZWO2R7WVMMYL3VZ/#QTKXBXQMS6HGQRBUPWFN5UMP3NSRYLR5

Thank you for your answer.

I did already had over 150 clients on a bridging ap on large festivals. As Felix said there is no hard client limit.

The clients which can't 'connect' was stucking on 'receiving ip address which might lead to a routing or Batman-adv client/server management problem.

Since we have more than one Hotspot which seem to hit this issue every week I might investigate further if you might point a possible fix out.

Best regards

Ruben

Any update ?

We are still very interested in a fix, if this is issue still exist.

I think we going to test around a bit next days on batman-adv 2014.4 and figure out if there's a client limit or not.

Thanks for the kind reminder!

Ruben Kelevra wrote:

We are still very interested in a fix, if this is issue still exist.

I think we going to test around a bit next days on batman-adv 2014.4 and figure out if there's a client limit or not.

As far as I remember, it wasn't even proven that the client limit had anything to do with batman-adv ?

Any update ?

Sorry, but #204 does have a higher priority for us. After we found what cause this issue, we have time to address this one. :)

Ruben Kelevra wrote:

Sorry, but #204 does have a higher priority for us. After we found what cause this issue, we have time to address this one. :)

Ticket #204 has been closed for a while now. Did you have the time to look at this issue again ? FYI, you had marked it as a high priority ticket ..

So, we just got 104 Clients on a mesh-node, which meshes over 5 GHz. It's a 128 MByte RAM device.

Just in case you're wondering how much ram this consumes:

# free -h
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:        126452        30160        96292            0         2384
-/+ buffers:              27776        98676
Swap:            0            0            0

the load is fairly low for this much clients:

load average: 0.52, 0.54, 0.44

And top:

Mem: 29960K used, 96492K free, 0K shrd, 2384K buff, 7308K cached
CPU:   2% usr   6% sys   0% nic  81% idle   0% io   0% irq   9% sirq
Load average: 0.46 0.48 0.43 1/43 31843
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %VSZ %CPU COMMAND
 1299     1 root     S     1652   1%   3% /usr/sbin/hostapd -P /var/run/wifi-ph
 1323     1 root     R     1632   1%   2% /usr/sbin/hostapd -P /var/run/wifi-ph
 2839     2 root     SW       0   0%   1% [kworker/u2:1]
 9253     2 root     SW       0   0%   1% [kworker/u2:3]

# batctl -v
batctl 2014.3.0 [batman-adv: 2014.3.0]

Pretty nice overall, so I think we can close this bug! :)