13 Mar
2019
13 Mar
'19
12:16 p.m.
Heya! I'm planning an installation of a meshnet node in my campus apartment (and
hopefully deploying more nodes on campus?) but I'm concerned about our captive
portal.
Whenever someone logs onto the campus residential internet, we have to sign in with our
student ID and then our MAC address is logged. When you plug a wifi router into one of
these campus ethernet ports, they force you to set it up in LAN cascade mode which just
makes the router act like an extension of the campus routers (I think? Correct me if
I'm wrong here.)
What can be done about this so we can set up meshnet nodes?
Thanks!
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13 Mar
13 Mar
2:28 p.m.
It depends what you want to achieve. I assume that you just want the
mesh network to extend the existing campus network and have students
sign in with their ID as normal via the mesh?
If so, you could use batman-adv which is a layer 2 mesh networking
protocol. Seen from the campus network's point of view the entire mesh
network should just look like a regular ethernet switch.
On 3/13/19, Carolyn "Lynn" Knight <gigavinyl(a)riseup.net> wrote:
Heya! I'm planning an installation of a meshnet
node in my campus apartment
(and hopefully deploying more nodes on campus?) but I'm concerned about our
captive portal.
Whenever someone logs onto the campus residential internet, we have to sign
in with our student ID and then our MAC address is logged. When you plug a
wifi router into one of these campus ethernet ports, they force you to set
it up in LAN cascade mode which just makes the router act like an extension
of the campus routers (I think? Correct me if I'm wrong here.)
What can be done about this so we can set up meshnet nodes?
Thanks!
-/-\-/-\-/-
Carolyn "Lynn" Knight [xe/xem/xyr/xemself]
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14 Mar
14 Mar
2:12 p.m.
Awesome! Would this still provide the security/privacy benefits and firewall-circumventing
of the meshnet? Our network blocks many vpns and slows down access on UDP ports (I
believe, I still need to preform more diagnostics). Also there might be some surveillance
on the network but me and my comrades haven't discovered the source just yet.
Otherwise, would using a VPN or TOR in conjunction with the meshnet be a better solution?
Also is there a setup procedure of batman-adv on sudowrt documented anywhere? My searx
skills have turned up nothing.
Thanks!
On March 13, 2019 9:28:26 PM UTC, Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote:
It depends what you want to achieve. I assume that you
just want the
mesh network to extend the existing campus network and have students
sign in with their ID as normal via the mesh?
If so, you could use batman-adv which is a layer 2 mesh networking
protocol. Seen from the campus network's point of view the entire mesh
network should just look like a regular ethernet switch.
On 3/13/19, Carolyn "Lynn" Knight <gigavinyl(a)riseup.net> wrote:
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Carolyn "Lynn" Knight [xe/xem/xyr/xemself]
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Heya! I'm planning an installation of a
meshnet node in my campus
apartment
(and hopefully deploying more nodes on campus?)
but I'm concerned
about our
captive portal.
Whenever someone logs onto the campus residential internet, we have
to sign
in with our student ID and then our MAC address
is logged. When you
plug a
wifi router into one of these campus ethernet
ports, they force you
to set
it up in LAN cascade mode which just makes the
router act like an
extension
> of the campus routers (I think? Correct me if I'm wrong here.)
>
> What can be done about this so we can set up meshnet nodes?
>
> Thanks!
> -/-\-/-\-/-
>
> Carolyn "Lynn" Knight [xe/xem/xyr/xemself]
>
> 🔐PGP Fingerprint: 0xf02b733b4382e451c8c2fff550858748146544cb
>
> 🕸Fediverse: @gigavinyl@catgirl.science
7:37 p.m.
On 3/14/19, Carolyn "Lynn" Knight <gigavinyl(a)riseup.net> wrote:
Awesome! Would this still provide the security/privacy
benefits and
firewall-circumventing of the meshnet? Our network blocks many vpns and
slows down access on UDP ports (I believe, I still need to preform more
diagnostics). Also there might be some surveillance on the network but me
and my comrades haven't discovered the source just yet. Otherwise, would
using a VPN or TOR in conjunction with the meshnet be a better solution?
Yeah the mesh just routes traffic on the mesh. You need a VPN.
Also is there a setup procedure of batman-adv on
sudowrt documented
anywhere? My searx skills have turned up nothing.
Since you'll be using batman-adv I don't think using sudowrt would do
you any good since that only supports babeld. I'd just recommend using
plain OpenWRT or maybe looking at the LibreRouter firmware (I _think_
they support batman-adv but I'm not 100% sure).
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