So a friend of mine knows a guy in the Berkeley Hills who is real nice.
I talked with him on the phone and suggested that he let us put up a tower
at his house, and use it for the mesh network, and give him free internet.
He said that sounds great but cautioned that his view is to the northwest.
His address is 1130 sterling ave, berkeley if you want to look at it on a
topographic map or even visit. If you want to visit, let me know and i'll
call him and coordinate a date when we can go over there. He owns his
house and is a nice guy.
There is a telescoping 90-foot tower in my driveway. I paid $100 for it
and Marc paid $45 in gasoline to go get it, and I don't think I have a
place to put it. If the mesh group wants to buy the tower and put it up
somewhere, for example at Charlie's place, that would work fine.
1130 sterling ave, berkeley
what do you think?
-jake
Hi!
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/02/fcc-did-lot-more-just-approve…
"The Federal Communications Commission will allow some cities and towns
to set up and expand municipal Internet services, overruling state laws
that had been put in place to block such efforts."
But it is also interesting, that as a regulated utility service that
Internet now is, it means one can get also access to utility poles and
other essential infrastructure owned by utilities, do deploy the Internet?
BTW, I think with classification of Internet as utility we got a
half-solution. It would be much better to not try to make Internet be
linked with old laws which were made before the Internet. They could
just pass something new, say simply "net neutrality" bill, instead of
trying to make Internet an utility. Because with utility there are also
pretty strict regulations, which do provide neutrality, but also other
requirements. So, not sure if this will then allow alternatives like
community networks to ever legally present them as ISPs, because it
would make them utilities and fall under all requirements, and paperwork.
Mitar
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Happy last Thursday of the month!
Sudo Mesh will be hosting our monthly general meeting this evening,
starting at 7:30pm in sudo room.
All are welcome, even if you haven't been in awhile, even if you've
never been!
Suggested agenda is here, change it and add to it as you like:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh
Mesh the planet!
Jenny
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Hi!
Motivated by all the activity and deployments in Oakland, we made also
our first link for the BSC mesh network in Berkeley. :-) Cloyne-Kingman
has now a nice WiFi link. It was an effort of 3 houses (Cloyne, Kingman
and Wilde). The next link is Wilde-Loth. The idea is connecting all 20
BSC houses together. :-)
See the attached photo. :-)
Mitar
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Today we (Chris S, Joseph, Will and myself) mounted three rooftop nodes in
west oakland! We mounted two small nanobridges and one nanostation.
The nodes still need RJ45 plugs attached to the non-node end of the cable
and we need to test the links. Maybe we can do this some time in the coming
week.
Assuming all links work, we will then have four houses linked together
without any point to multipoint links (two of the houses have two nodes).
Next Sunday's node mount will be at a location near the Grand Lake Theatre.
--
marc/juul
Today's mesh node mount is on a slanted roof. We're able to borrow a safety
harness, but we're in need of rope strong enough to stop a falling human.
Do you have any and can we borrow it today (noon to 4 pm) ?
--
marc/juul
Folks,
It's an exciting time for Sudo Mesh and the People's Open Network. A
great deal of work has been underway over the past couple of months, and
we've begun building out the backbone of the network and are fine-tuning
the firmware that makes it all tick. We're also developing a community
outreach strategy and have begun reaching out to local stakeholders and
other aligned media organizations. If you fit this bill, do drop us a line!
With no further ado, the rundown:
*Announcements*
* Next Thursday is the last Thursday of the month - which means it's our
monthly general meeting! This is a great opportunity for new folks to
learn more about the project and how they can plug in. Starts at 7:30,
bring snacks to share!
* At the beginning of the year, we began scheduling weekly Sunday node
mounts at strategic locations across the East Bay. We currently have
several rooftop nodes in West Oakland, a large antenna in Kensington
with line-of-sight to downtown Oakland and Richmond, and a brand new
node up in Rockridge with line-of-sight to the Omni, downtown Oakland
and San Francisco. If you have a great rooftop for us, get in touch!
* We've been working on a complete redesign of our web admin interface
for node owners, The new UI is based roughly on the EFF Open Wireless
router and for the backend we're doing away with lua and switching to
luci2/ubus. We've also written a backend simulator in node.js which will
allow any web developer to work on the web app without needing an actual
sudowrt node.
* After many weeks of wrangling various issues with batman-adv and our
tunnels, we decided to switched to Babel, a mesh routing protocol that
operates at Layer 3. We've extended the babel daemon with dynamic
reconfiguration features which means that babel can now be used to
dynamically mesh incoming tunnels on our VPuN servers.
** VPuN: Virtual Public Network
*Code*
* Wrought has been prettifying sudomesh/sudowrt-luci2-webclient, our web
admin interface for node owners
* Max-b has been working on sudomesh/makenode, a tool for configuring
routers after they've been flashed
* Juul created sudomesh/subnet, a library for comparing and calculating
IPv6 and IPv4 subnets.
* Juul added support for other per-node subnets to
sudomesh/meshnode-database
* Max-b updated sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware with the latest version of
OpenWRT and replaced BMX6 configs with Babel
* Max-b added Babel configs and fixed some mtu issues at sudomesh/exitnode
* Max-b forked Tunneldigger to work with babel at sudomesh/tunneldigger
* Juul forked Babel at sudomesh/babeld
* Juul and Jerkey updated sudomesh/merakiflasher
*Wiki*
* Chrisjx created Mesh/Bandwidth Quotas and Juul added some more notes.
* Tunabananas added a new post, 'Building out our backbone..." to Mesh/Blog
* Tunabananas updated Mesh/Wishlist
* Chrisjx created documentation on his design and our implementation of
a Rooftop Dish Antenna Mount
* Maxb articulated new protocol search on Mesh/Firmware
* Chrisjx added research on Icinga to Mesh/Icinga
* Juul added Mesh/BMX6 with research on the BMX6 routing protocol.
* Chrisjx has been adding tons of concise research to Mesh/Monitoring:
Research on Cricket, Graphite, charting, and more
*Get Involved!*
* Add your location to our map: http://map.sudomesh.org
* Donate hardware and equipment! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Wishlist
* Give a small weekly donation: https://www.gratipay.com/sudomesh
* Contribute research, ideas, designs to our wiki: https://sudomesh.org
* Contribute to the code: https://github.com/sudomesh
Mesh the planet!
Jenny, on behalf of Sudo Mesh
I volunteered to be a helpful bridge between Big Ed and the mesh group.
Hopefully the email below will give whatever information people want to
make use of his beta testing.
tl;dr he says that when logging into the peoplesopen.net wireless network
provided by the ubiquiti, he is able to access the computers in his house,
which he does not want people to be able to do without any credentials.
his home router (into which the ubiquiti is plugged) is setup thusly:
"IP Address:
192.168.xxxx
Subnet Mask:
255.255.255.0"
I hope this is helpful information for the project.
love
-jake
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:50:33 -0800
From: Ed Biow <biow(a)riseup.net>
To: Jake <jake(a)spaz.org>
Subject: Re: peoplesopen.net router
On 02/20/2015 12:43 PM, Jake wrote:
hey Ed, jake here
can you tell me as much detail as possible about your network setup, and the problem you described as that the Peoplesopen.net router was exposing your home network?
I have sonic.net DSL now, but I didn't want to pay $6 a month to rent their crappy modem-router, so I RMAed it and switched to a Motorola 2210-02 DSL Modem which I had lying
around paired with a cheap 300Mbps Wireless 2T2R Router RNX-N300RT with the standard proprietary firmware which hasn't been updated in 3 years. The router supports OpenWRT
(which I've used in the past, but haven't set up on this guy, which I've only been using for a couple of months after my old router died). The wireless router is running
WPA-PSK 11bgn mixed and there is cat 5 cable going around the house from the router and also, to the Ubiquity to give it a connection.. WPS is enabled, whatever that is. Most of
my computers use static IP addresses so I can easily SSH in to them from wherever. The WAN connection type is Dynamic IP. My router's local IP address is 192.168.xxx.xxx, and
I have reserved the 192.168.xxx.100-200 range for static IP addresses, but my laptop does DHCP. The low numbers of the subnet are assigned for DHCP.
LAN
MAC Address:
xxxxxxx
IP Address:
192.168.xxxx
Subnet Mask:
255.255.255.0
Wireless
Wireless Radio:
Enable
Name (SSID):
BuckFiden
Channel:
Auto (Current channel 4)
Mode:
11bgn mixed
Channel Width:
Automatic
Max Tx Rate:
300Mbps
MAC Address:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
WDS Status:
Disable
WAN
MAC Address:
xxxxxxxxxxx
IP Address:
142.254.19.7
Dynamic IP
Subnet Mask:
255.255.255.0
Default Gateway:
142.254.19.1
DNS Server:
208.201.224.11 , 208.201.224.33
for example, what is the IP structure of your home network? what's the router address and IP range? and the peoplesopen.net router is plugged into that, correct?
and your home router is, i assume, plugged into the comcast or AT&T device, which is providing a single IP address (via DHCP) to your home router?
I will try to get it fixed for you (although you may have to plug it in or bring it to a mesh meetup)
I brought the unit to the mesh meeting last night and left it with Mark & Jenny. The cardboard box is more or less falling apart, but the unit and the dongle and antenna are all
there.
I have a home server running Trusty that has my files on a couple of encrypted hard drives set up with a number of samba shares. Some shares are RO, some are RW, some are
hidden, one is open to writing by guest accounts without too much security (to have a convenient place to dump files from untrusted sources). My computers are set up to
automount one of the samba shares at boot from the fstab (not an incredibly secure process, if someone got physical access to one of my unencrypted computers they could figure
out the samba PW, though I did take some efforts to make that more difficult.
So I set up the Ubiquity with a piece of CAT 5 coming from one of my switches, and logged in to the administrative SSID along with the peoplesopen.net one, and from either one I
could mount my LAN share with a simple "mount -a" (since the share is listed in the fstab). Most of my network shares do require a username and a password but I also left a RO
share open to guests to browse for Windows software (mostly open source, but some proprietary freeware) to make it easier to download stuff to clean up friends' Windoze boxen
that have nasties on them). Even a password isn't a whole buttload of security.
Is there any other information that would be helpful? I suppose I should install OpenWRT on my personal router, but I don't see what difference that would make. I've got a
couple of samba shares set up on the black box under the server stack we can test things on, we can just plug the Ubuiquity into that switch under the server room, I guess.
On that note, I took the white computer home to swap out the motherboard with one that doesn't have problems with shitty firmware that makes it lose its KVM signal, though I
plugged in a HDMI cable to the TV along with the VGA, and then when I went back to that white machine (Spartacus) the GUI signal was restored. Unfortunately, the Hitachi Plasma
TV is FU, it has a broad band running down the middle after running for a bit. We took it off the wall yesterday and someone whose name I don't know (short, longish beard) took
it apart and cleaned it out, though it isn't back on the wall. The next time I'm in the sudoroom for a couple of hours I'll test it and see if that fixed it, but I do have an
intact 32" TV at the room that could live there, as well.
Also, I brought some really nice speakers with a sub woofer to the room, that have an issue that you are probably equipped to address, one of the tweeter speakers doesn't work
properly unless you get all touchy-feely with the green plug that goes in to the source. They are in a box over by the TV, the subwoofer has plastic made to look like wood
grain. Maybe you can fix it up, and we can stick it somewhere in the sudoroom, bolted to something, so no one thinks it is hackable and free for the taking.
As to the computers under the server room, I took my friend Tina Flores to the room today to look over the computers. She's been speaking to some friends who just got back from
Havana. She says that eCAP (which handles imports of donated items to Cuba) is overwhelmed now because of offers of solidarity in the wake of Obomba's speech calling for less
restrictions on interaction with the island, and will take a while to get back to us on a new license, but she sent something to some folks over there detailing what we have,
and is doing the paperwork for a July shipment (we're looking at a half container, at least 100 machines, if the Cubanos want them). Lisa Valente, president of the US-Cuba
Sister City Association yakked to some dude at the international desk of the Assemblea Popular, and they are definately interested in computers, & I can probably round some more
up at OTX West or ACCRC (now that James is gone). Another medical delegation is going over at the end of March & Tina & I are writing a letter to see if ELAM would like some
machines. BTW, Tina is planning a program and reception at the end of April for the Cuban ambassador (once they accredit one) at Oakland City Hall, if you are interested. I told
her I might be able to book the Ballroom, but she thinks she can get the City Hall rotunda for free (she is somewhat connected to some local politicritters, in specific, Barbara
Lee, who she's worked for).
https://localwiki.org/oakland/Oakland_Sister_Cities_Programhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/09/cuban-spies-continue-to-exp…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELAM_%28Latin_American_School_of_Medicine%29_C…
In any case, I'm in the process of roofing over and walling up an old kennel in my back yard, so within a week or two I should have a place to move the computers if you think
the sudoroom needs that storage area. See attached photos.
Ed
7
note: I am NOT officially part of the mesh group in any way, i am just trying to help.
thanks
-jake
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