On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Jake <jake@spaz.org> wrote:
i think it's perfect with the numbers, and I DON'T think it should be
obfuscated with dictionary words or emojis or something.

in fact i think the entire router IP address should be in there!

people need to learn more about networking, it's not that hard, and this is a
perfect opportunity for that.  it's really important that people start to see
IP addresses, especially if we want people to put up web services on the mesh
itself!  it's really exciting.

peoplesopen.net 10.64.2.1
peoplesopen.net 5GHz 10.64.2.1

I like the emojis. We're thinking of letting the person configuring the node decide if they want numbers, words or emojis. It's 100.xxx.yyy.zzz so unfortunately we can't fit an entire IP and a 2.4 GHz / 5 GHz differentiator and spaces between the "peoplesopen.net" and differentiator and IP. Not even if the differentiator is a single character. but since all nodes have IPs starting with 100. it shouldn't be a problem. Another reason to avoid the IPs in the SSID is that we whould work torwards making the IPv6 addresses the primary way for people to reach nodes since we'll actually be able to get internet routable IPv6 addresses.
 

-jake

PS i was an early whiner about the same-SSID roaming problems :)

We finally have unique SSIDs for the nodes.

Instead of them all being named "peoplesopen.net" they will now have the
last three parts of the IPv4 address added to the name. E.g. for a home
node with the IP 100.64.2.1 the SSIDs will be:

2.4 Ghz: "peoplesopen.net 64.2.1"
5 GHZ: "peoplesopen.net fast 64.2.1"

An extender node with the IP 100.64.2.2 will have the SSID "peoplesopen.net
64.2.2" even if it is a 5 GHz node. Extender nodes always only have one
radio, so this is fine.

This only applies to home nodes configured after this change and extender
nodes flashed with the latest (not yet downloadable) build.

I moved builds.sudomesh.org to be hosted on the VPS running the
peoplesopen.net website and will grant Grant access as soon as I have his
SSH key so he can upload the latest builds.

We should later upgrade this to map the scary numbers to either nice simple
english language words (or why limit to english? give an option of spanish)
or emojis.

For those of you who are not read up on this issue, the nodes need to have
unique SSIDs because they we do not have layer 3 roaming working, so when a
client device is connected to a node's "peoplesopen.net" wifi network and
auto-roams to a different node's wifi network also called "peoplesopen.net"
then it will suddenly be on a new subnet but it will not ask for a new DHCP
lease, since clients assume that multiple access points with the same name
are on the same layer 2 networs / subnet. The result is that people who are
sitting approximately between two mesh nodes will have their internet
intermittently stop working for minutes at a time.

--
marc/juul
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