- mesh - sudoroom.org

by Mitar

Hi! This is very interesting decentralized technology: https://torrentfreak.com/beating-internet-censors-with-bittorrents-maelstro… Bittorrent based websites. Maybe this could be used inside a mesh as well. Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m

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Come to Battlemesh v8 to Slovenia

by Mitar

Hi! (Come, because then it will be much easier for People's Open to organize it next year. You will see how it goes and also the wider community will know more about it. Let's move it to USA next year!) I am inviting you all to Battlemesh. This year it will be in Slovenia, 03-09 Aug 2015. We extended the early bird deadline to 24 April for shared accommodation costs. But otherwise the event is free to attend. See more information here: http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV8 Battlemesh is an international annual developer conference and brings together wireless community networks participants, WiFi wireless mesh networking enthusiasts, developers from the most popular open source mesh protocol implementations (Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., BMX, IEEE 802.11s, OLSR) and anyone else interested either in developing mesh networking technologies or establishing such networks. The week long event is organized around participant collaboration and learning with a number of talks and workshops running in parallel while performing experiments on a test network deployed just for this purpose. There will be a number of interesting and new devices to test, a setup of wireless optical system KORUZA and much more. (The dates are close to Chaos Communication Camp so you can continue to Germany afterwards.) https://wlan-si.net/en/blog/2015/03/29/announcing-battlemesh-v8-in-maribor-… Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m

10 years, 5 months

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Looking to link up two locations

by Rubin Abdi

Not sure how old the map is on http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/ but I've got two locations with roof access. One is at the corner of San Pablo and 56th on top of an old motorcycle shop, and the other is in SF near the corner of Mission and Valencia. -- Rubin rubin(a)starset.net

10 years, 5 months

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website

by April Glaser

hi y'all any word on when the website will be back up? peoplesopen.net thanks! April -- 0x54FC570B

10 years, 6 months

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CFP Internet Governance Symposium, Brazil

by Mitar

Hi! Call for proposals for GigaNet's Internet Governance symposium in Joao Pessoa (Brazil). (See attached.) The deadline for proposals is 15 April 2015. Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m

10 years, 6 months

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3/31 @IFTF Dewayne Hendricks wireless pioneer, activist, FCC techie & Darknet explorer

by Mike Liebhold

Dear Friends, Please join us Tuesday 3/31 in Palo Alto for the next event in the Institute for the Future's Second Curve Internet (insurgent Internet) Speaker Series Featuring Dewayne Hendricks, is a long time wireless pioneer, activist for world net development, FCC Techie and Darknet explorer I hope to see you there! MIke Looking Back to Look Forward: The Future of the Internet In this talk, Dewayne Hendricks will take us on a walk back through history— starting with the British science historian James Burke who pioneered using the ‘Connections’ methodology—and reveal how the principles behind the Internet have manifested themselves before in other communications methods. From that perspective, Dewayne will look at today’s Internet and speculate on just what its ‘Second Curve’ might look like. o The rediscovery of the end-to-end principle and how this could be put to use. o The implications of growing the new Internet from the bottom up (grassroots style), rather then top down. o The effects of the growth of user owned communications infrastructure on the future Internet. o How the use of peer-to-peer applications are changing the capabilities of the Deep Web (aka Darknet). o How wireless devices might change if spectrum policies such as 'Open Spectrum' were allowed to flourish. DATE: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 TIME: 6-8pm LOCATION: Institute for the Future, 201 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA - See more at: http://www.iftf.org/futureoftheinternet/#sthash.5uGB9d7i.dpuf Looking Back to Look Forward: The Future of the Internet Dewayne Hendricks - Wireless Internet Pioneer and former FCC Tech Advisor DATE: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 TIME: 6-8pm LOCATION: Institute for the Future, 201 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA Powered by IFTF.org Ten-Year Forecast About Dewayne: Dewayne Hendricks is currently CEO of Tetherless Access, Inc., based in Fremont, California, USA. Tetherless Access offers a comprehensive range of products and services, including research and product development, for wireless communications via the Internet. He is also a past member of the Federal Communications Commission's Technological Advisory Council (FCC/TAC), where he served for eight years. In 2002, Wired Magazine did a profile on him, titled "Broadband Cowboy." Prior to forming Tetherless Access, Dewayne was General Manager of the Wireless Business Unit for Com21, Inc. He joined Com21 participating as Co-Principal Investigator in the National Science Foundation’s Wireless Field Tests for Education project. That project successfully connected remote educational institutions to the Internet. Test sites ranged from rural primary schools in Colorado, USA to a University in Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia. About the Second Curve Internet Speaker Series This event is part of IFTF’s Second Curve Internet Speaker Series, an exploration into the critical elements necessary to reinvent the Internet, stemming from our 2014 Ten-Year Forecast research. The series gathers leading minds together with IFTF’s deep experience thinking about technology and the ways of communicating, coordinating, and organizing in the changing world around us. More Information • For more information about the speaker series, please contact Carol Neuschul (cneuschul(a)iftf.org). • Join the Second Curve Internet Google Group. • For more information about the Second Curve Internet project and IFTF’s Ten-Year Forecast, please contact Sean Ness (sness(a)iftf.org). • Follow #reinventthenet, @IFTF, and like the IFTF Facebook page for more on reinventing the Internet! - See more at: http://www.iftf.org/futureoftheinternet/#sthash.5uGB9d7i.dpuf Event Recordings: Alas: there were technical problems recording of the 2/27 Peter Eckersley EFF talk, But - if you missed the first two events in the series: with Cory Doctorow and David P. Reed, The Videos are online here: Redesigns for a Broken Internet - Cory Doctorow [Video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_9EFGFR-Y ""The Internet's broken and that's bad news, because everything we do today involves the Internet and everything we'll do tomorrow will require it. But governments and corporations see the net, variously, as a perfect surveillance tool, a perfect pornography distribution tool, or a perfect video on demand tool—not as the nervous system of the 21st century. Time's running out. Architecture is politics. The changes we're making to the net today will prefigure the future our children and their children will thrive in—or suffer under." Cooperate and Thrive, or Divide and Conquer? David P. Reed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RAnHWPS-Iw "You never step into the same river twice. So it is with the Internet. The Internet transcends any particular physical devices, any particular services, country boundaries etc. But today it remains a collection of rivers, with firm banks, a few major sources, and a vast undifferentiated ocean of "consumers." The Internet has begun to encompass the air around us. That is, almost all of us in the West now carry the Internet with us, maintaining constant connections to the rivers, attempting to create "rivers" in the sky. Technically, rivers in the sky makes no sense at all. What will the next phase of the Internet look like? How will it be built? In this talk we will focus on two major technology issues that challenge the future evolution of the Internet—radio networking architecture and proximate interaction. In each, the core principles that helped the Internet succeed are being discarded. What will happen?"

10 years, 6 months

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Fwd: [Ow-tech] Security and Development hackathon -- Sat, April 18, San Francisco

by max b

We should try to show up! We might even be able to show off some of the new features we've worked on, especially the LUCI 2 code that Marc has been working on! Max ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ranganathan Krishnan <rk(a)selwastor.com> Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:16 PM Subject: [Ow-tech] Security and Development hackathon -- Sat, April 18, San Francisco To: "<ow-tech(a)eff.org>" <ow-tech(a)eff.org> A security and development hackathon is being organized to advance the openwireless router software. Here is a link to the wiki describing the event. https://github.com/EFForg/OpenWireless/wiki/Hackathon-----April-18,-2015 This is shaping up to be an exciting event, that I hope you can participate in. It is drawing participation from key players in the router ecosystem including Openwrt core developers, Prpl foundation and Qualcomm in addition to Riscure, Thoughtworks and EFF. An RSVP site will be setup for the hackathon and a link to that will be sent out to this list. Meanwhile if you would like to help in organize the event and/or have suggestions on how to get the word out please let me know. Best, Ranga _______________________________________________ Ow-tech mailing list Ow-tech(a)lists.eff.org https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/ow-tech

10 years, 6 months

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Lost USB Memory Stick with Important files

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hello All, I lost a USB memory stick that contains very important files. On Saturday (March 14th) in the afternoon I stopped by Omni to do some computer work, but since my laptop was running out of space, I transferred a lot of files into a 32GB or 64GB (cannot remember exactly) memory stick (that later I put in my pants front small pocket), so that I could have some extra disk space. I left the OMNI about 7:00PM. I believe I may have dropped it at the time that I was looking for food at the fridge. I believe it was there, because right after getting food at the OMNI I went straight to Ed's place. It was at Ed's place when I tried to retrieve it and I realized I have lost it. Please someone pass this email to the OMNI list if possible. Many thanks in advance, Daniel

10 years, 6 months

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General Meeting Notes + Schedule shift!

by Jenny Ryan

Hey all, We had an excellent meeting last week with lots of updates and brainstorms on future plans. Two key announcements: * We are trial-running a switch of our hacknights and meeting nights. For now, we'll be having organizing meetings on Tuesdays in the ballroom mezzanine, and firmware/dev hacknights on Thursdays in sudo room - 7:30pm! * We continue to plan and actively mount rooftop nodes every Sunday. Join our new 'talk' mailing list to stay up-to-date as we schedule: https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh-talk - Or just join us every Sunday at noon - we pack, prep and then leave from sudo! More updates on technical and outreach progress + next steps in the notes - Full notes recorded for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/26_February_2015 -- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

10 years, 6 months

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node mounting this Sunday

by April Glaser

Hi there A reminder that we are meeting at the Omni Commons this Sunday at 12noon to set up antennas and learn more about networking. See y'all there. April

10 years, 7 months

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California Telleconnects Fund

by max b

http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/puc/telco/public+programs/ctf/ Apparently we might be eligible for a 50% discount off any "on select communications services". It sounds like it would take a few months to apply and receive eligibility.

10 years, 7 months

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Re: [Mesh] sudoroom.org downtime tonight

by yar

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:34 AM, yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's at maybe the worst possible time (6pm tonight) but there's > nothing we can do about it. We'll try to make it as quick & smooth as > possible. all done!

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sudoroom.org downtime tonight

by yar

It's at maybe the worst possible time (6pm tonight) but there's nothing we can do about it. We'll try to make it as quick & smooth as possible. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <support(a)linode.com> Date: Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:35 AM Subject: Linode Support Ticket 4254236 - Critical Xen Maintenance / Reboot Schedule Hello, Linode recently received several Xen Security Advisories (XSAs) that require us to perform updates to our host servers. In order to apply the updates, hosts and the Linodes running on them must be rebooted. The XSAs will be publicly released by the Xen project team on March 10th, therefore we must complete the updates before that date. These updates are required to protect the security and safe operations of not only our infrastructure, but yours as well. We understand that a disruption with such limited notice is inconvenient, and we hope you understand that these measures are warranted due to the severity of the XSAs. Your Linodes have been assigned a maintenance window in which a reboot will occur. These times are listed within the Linode Manager[1] in the timezone set in your user's My Profile[2]. Your schedule in UTC timezone is as follows: * 2015-03-06 2:00:00 AM UTC - sudoserver During the maintenance window Linode instances will be cleanly shut down while we perform the updates. Your Linode will be inaccessible during this time. A two-hour window is allocated, however the actual downtime can be much less. After the maintenance, each Linode will then be booted. See our Reboot Survival Guide[3] for tips and hints on configuring and testing that your Linode services boot properly after the maintenance. Unfortunately, due the logistical demands of this effort, your assigned windows are not changeable and the host reboots are mandatory. For general information, please see our status post: <http://status.linode.com/incidents/2dyvn29ds5mz> Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist. [1] <https://manager.linode.com/linodes> [2] <https://manager.linode.com/profile> [3] <https://www.linode.com/docs/uptime/reboot-survival-guide> -Linode

10 years, 7 months

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wondering if we have a mesh meeting tonight? :)

by danarauz＠gmail.com

eof

10 years, 7 months

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Re: [Mesh] [sudo-discuss] [mesh-dev] [omni-discuss] New Internet

by Brandon Curtis

Assuming this is the PHLO+ dual-bonded VDSL Business service, they're stating 60-100Mbps @ 1000 feet from the local Central Office: http://www.lmi.net/services/phlo-faq Sudo Room is about 900' as the crow flies (though it's the cable length and quality that matters): Building CLLI/Name: OKLDCA11 (OAKLAND (45TH STREET)) Address: 479 45th St, Oakland, CA 94609-2135 http://www.lmi.net/phlomap.html LMI offers static addresses for an extra fee. from http://www.lmi.net/services/adsl: "Bridged static IP’s are available for: $5 / one static, $10 / four static, $20 / eight static per month." Additional details on the VDSL tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-high-bit-rate_digital_subscriber_line * -- Brandon* On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:56 PM, niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have no idea if it's a static ip address or not! > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:58 PM, max b <maxb.personal(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yeah so theoretically Marc should have any contract info about the LMI >> connection. All of the mesh folks including Marc should be at Sudo this >> evening, so hopefully we can clear up any issues. >> >> I also get the sense that the LMI folks are pretty reasonable, so if for >> any reason we don't end up with a static IP (and we should - it's the >> "business plan"), then we should probably be able to talk to them and >> convince them to provide one. >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:45 PM, yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:37 PM, niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> > I have the ip address and we're getting over 100Mbps down if what the >>> LMI >>> > guy said is to be trusted. >>> >>> Great. It's important that it configured to be a static IP address. Do >>> you know if it was? >>> >>> It looks like we haven't touched our router, it's still connected to >>> the old uplink, so that will have to be migrated. Let's do that at a >>> less high traffic time than Tuesday night and also wait to cancel >>> Sonic service until we finish doing that? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mesh-dev mailing list >>> mesh-dev(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh-dev >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > >

10 years, 7 months

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Re: [Mesh] [mesh-dev] [omni-discuss] New Internet

by max b

Yeah so theoretically Marc should have any contract info about the LMI connection. All of the mesh folks including Marc should be at Sudo this evening, so hopefully we can clear up any issues. I also get the sense that the LMI folks are pretty reasonable, so if for any reason we don't end up with a static IP (and we should - it's the "business plan"), then we should probably be able to talk to them and convince them to provide one. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:45 PM, yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:37 PM, niki <niki.shelley(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I have the ip address and we're getting over 100Mbps down if what the LMI > > guy said is to be trusted. > > Great. It's important that it configured to be a static IP address. Do > you know if it was? > > It looks like we haven't touched our router, it's still connected to > the old uplink, so that will have to be migrated. Let's do that at a > less high traffic time than Tuesday night and also wait to cancel > Sonic service until we finish doing that? > _______________________________________________ > mesh-dev mailing list > mesh-dev(a)lists.sudoroom.org > https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh-dev >

10 years, 7 months

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A house in the hills

by Jake

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

10 years, 7 months

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The FCC Did a Lot More Than Just Approve Net Neutrality Today

by Mitar

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 -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m

10 years, 7 months

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Monthly general meeting tonight, 7:30pm in sudo room!

by Jenny Ryan

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 http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

10 years, 7 months

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Photos from node mounts

by Marc Juul

Could everyone send me photos you took during our last node mount? -- marc/juul

10 years, 7 months

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First link of the BSC mesh network has been made

by Mitar

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 -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m

10 years, 7 months

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Sunday node mount update

by Marc Juul

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

10 years, 7 months

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Climbing or sailing rope?

by 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

10 years, 7 months

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The past few months in mesh!

by Jenny Ryan

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

10 years, 7 months

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Ed's peoplesopen.net router

by Jake

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_Program http://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 -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Now and then an innocent man is sent to legislature. - Kin Hubbard Edmund J. 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