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.
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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) ?
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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
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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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It was wet out, I'm easily distracted, so it took me about a week to
plug it in, Max, and when I realized that folks using peoplesopen.net
could browse and connect to my LAN I disconnected it. I'm going to
bring it by tonight, maybe you can show me how to disable this feature.
Also, to be honest, I wasn't able to figure out how to parcel out my
very limited bandwidth, and if someone decides to DL a torrent it will
cause my lordly 130 kbps to grind to a halt (I know it does when I DL a
Linux torrent, so I save that up for the middle of the night when
hopefully no one else in my house is trying to browse the net).
e
On 02/06/2015 10:21 AM, max b wrote:
> Hey just wanted to check in from last night to see if you tried
> plugging in the node and if it worked. It doesn't appear up from our
> end, but I just wanted to double check.
>
> No rush or anything, just don't want you to get stuck with another one
> that doesn't work....
>
>
> Awesome - just let me know if you need anything!
>
> Max
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Hey guys I'm battling a cold right now and I don't want to get you all sick
so I'm going to skip the Sunday node mounting today. Are you all planning
to meet later this week? Hopefully I'll be back to normal by then.
Will Martin
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> From: April Glaser <april.glaser(a)riseup.net <javascript:;>>
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> hi max!
>
> hope you're having a warm, relaxing, and productive break - wherever you
> are.
>
> here are our notes from our meeting yesterday:
> https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh
> i incorporated your comments.
>
> we have a heavy to-do list but they are all pretty light lifts. we'll
> likely not meet this thrusday b/c it's a rare holiday. but we are
> meeting at Omni on Sunday at 2p to climb someone's roof.
>
> summary:
> -we are focusing on funding and listing/reaching out to uplink options
> -we will have a 2 day small retreat for regulars soon to map goals and
> make firmware progress and apply for grants
> -we want to start mounting antennas, maybe every sunday?
> -landlord is not cool with drilling into the Omni roof. marc proposed
> using sandbags.
>
> more soon,
> april
>
> On 12/30/14 1:12 PM, max b wrote:
> > Hi April,
> >
> > Super glad that you're revisiting the docs!
> >
> > I'm currently out of town for a little while, but hoping to ramp up
> > some dev work from here (turns out parent's houses are good
> > distraction-free zones...)
> >
> > i'm dim about what our next goals are and who/where we want to
> > outreach to about mounting a router.
> >
> >
> > I would say that there are a few groups of people:
> > - The most important folks would be anyone who can provide us with an
> > internet uplink. It would probably also require us to be able to
> > install a little gear on their roof or somehow otherwise transmit that
> > bandwidth to a remote location.
> >
> > - The second most important group would be anyone who has access to a
> > high point, whether that be a roof with good line of sight around
> > them, someone with a radio tower, someone living in the hills, etc.
> >
> > - The last group would be anyone who would want to host one of the
> > "indoor" nodes. We haven't generally had any problems finding these
> > folks in the past. ALSO, the firmware for these devices had to be
> > re-vamped and is not yet finished (hopefully what I'll be doing while
> > I'm here....)
> >
> >
> > i'd like to request that at our next thurs meeting we spend the
> > first hour:
> > -answering a few questions,
> > -looking at our existing outreach list
> > <
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OxG6s1NFAEd9dasX5-Hdrz4jR6IWk9CkQTD…
> >,
> > -prioritize it, and
> > -list what materials we need to update/create to bring our
> > outreach partners a solid proposal.
> >
> >
> > I absolutely agree, although I won't be there. If it looks like there
> > are specific questions or whatever that I can answer I can try to be
> > on IRC or etherpad for the meeting.
> >
> >
> > also, does anyone here know what parts of the wiki need some love?
> > (we can also list the outdated pages this thurs in 2015)
> >
> >
> > From my perspective, the parts that need the most love are
> > documentation of our current progress and status. This also coincides
> > with our lack of a project management framework. I know that folks
> > don't really like being cornered into using tools they don't like, but
> > we're all a little fuzzy about who is actually working on what and
> > when. I've looked some various projects and I'm thinking about setting
> > up a test installation of https://github.com/malclocke/fulcrum
> >
> > As for the wiki, the following pages are pretty out of date and don't
> > reflect much current content:
> > - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware
> > This is largely my fault, but reflects on the difficulty in
> > visualizing where exactly we are with ongoing development and what is
> > left to do
> >
> > - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos
> > This also largely reflects on the difficulty in visualizing where
> > exactly we are with ongoing work. It might be a good start to figure
> > out where exactly we are and what we want to do and articulate this here
> >
> > - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Funding
> > I'm starting to think more and more that we're going to need to really
> > start generating more income. We certainly have a good start, but I
> > think that if we ever want to create the kind of service we're hoping
> > to then we'll need some more cash (maybe even enough to pay some
> > staff?). This page is already nicely compiled, but we might want to
> > dive a little deeper to see if we can actually seize on any of them.
> >
> >
> > Other people might have other opinions about pages that need work, but
> > that's what I've got for the moment...
> >
> >
> > Hopefully some of that is useful.
> >
> > Max
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 6:09 PM, April Glaser <april.glaser(a)riseup.net
> <javascript:;>
> > <mailto:april.glaser@riseup.net <javascript:;>>> wrote:
> >
> > hi all,
> >
> > i have a few questions as i attempt to update the wiki, add a new
> > blogpost (maybe pen an article for an outside publication on the
> > project), and update an outreach plan.
> >
> > but i'm dim about what our next goals are and who/where we want to
> > outreach to about mounting a router.
> >
> > i'd like to request that at our next thurs meeting we spend the
> > first hour:
> >
> > -answering a few questions,
> > -looking at our existing outreach list
> > <
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OxG6s1NFAEd9dasX5-Hdrz4jR6IWk9CkQTD…
> >,
> >
> > -prioritize it, and
> > -list what materials we need to update/create to bring our
> > outreach partners a solid proposal.
> >
> > would folks mind doing that? i'll gladly facilitate to help keep
> > us on point and to the point :) i'll also take notes and add the
> > ether pad to the wiki. this will help me to dig in and hack on our
> > community organizing moving forward.
> >
> > also, does anyone here know what parts of the wiki need some love?
> > (we can also list the outdated pages this thurs in 2015)
> >
> > excelsior,
> > april
> >
> >
> >
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It looks like the fiscal year for sudo mesh ends in November instead of
December. I'm inducing this from scant information available but will try
to verify with the IRS tomorrow (their phone lines are pretty jammed
today). This means that, for the tax forms that we file the deadline is
15th of April instead of 15th of May. Again, I will try to verify this.
This means that we filed taxes LATE last year. I think this probably
doesn't matter given that we (probably) didn't owe anything, but will try
to verify.
We're also overdue for our board meeting, I believe the last one was
January 30th:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/30_January_2014
We should officially adopt our bylaws as well:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Bylaws
Let's talk about it this Thursday.
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