We're finally getting the new access points configured.
They all have the same SSID: peoplesopen.net
They are all on the mesh subnet: 100.64.0.0/10
In fact they will be on their own chunk of the mesh subnet: 100.64.64.0/22
In order to make that work without having to use VLANs, we installed a new
PCI card in the sudo mesh gateway which provides two additional gigabit
ethernet interfaces.
One of these interfaces (eth2) now has the IP 100.64.64.1 and it is giving
out IPs with DHCP from 100.64.64.50 and to the end of our local chunk of
mesh subnet.
The large gigabit ethernet switch we had been using for everything is now
being used for the 100.64.x.x subnet and the smaller gigabit switch on top
of it is now used for the 192.168.x.x subnet.
I'm calling it a night now but the plan is to link our local 100.64.x.x
subnet to the wider mesh with an auto-re-establishing tunnel from the sudo
gateway and to isolate the 100.64.x.x and 192.168.x.x subnets in such a way
that people on 192.168 can establish new connections to the mesh but the
mesh cannot establish new connections to 192.168. We can then simply hook
up any local services (like printers) to 192.168 and the wider mesh won't
use all our toner printing cat pictures.
We've only configured one of the wifi routers correctly so far (the one in
CCL) but copying the config is easy so the others will follows shortly.
The sudomesh access point in sudo room is still on 192.168
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marc/juul
We've been having trouble with our internet.
First we noticed terrible ping times (500 to 1500 ms) and Max B who has
been running ping monitoring verified that this issue has been coming and
going since around the beginning of July.
I haven't seen that issue over the past couple of days but we _are_ getting
much less bandwidth than what we're paying for.
I just disconnected everything from the DSL moodel and ran a speedtest with
my laptop hooked straight into the DSL model and I got about 27 mbit/sec
down and 2 mbit/sec up.
2 mbit/sec upstream is a problem since we're trying to live-stream cyber
wizard institute talks in 720p and the audio is dropping out.
I filed a support request with LMI over the phone (no-one picked up).
Hopefully they'll get back to me soon.
The only thing it could be on our end is the kinda crummy cable we ran from
the Rise Above room to the server rack. Anyone want to re-run this in a
less terrible way?
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marc/juul
