Mesh/06 October 2015

Sudo Mesh meeting, 06 Oct 2015

attendees

• maxb, jehan, peter b (good at CAD, engineer by day, writer by day), pete f, juul, alex p

updates

• Alex drafted a FCC letter: https://github.com/sudomesh/fcc-letter
  • Focusing on FCC's mission re: innovation, competition, and diversity

• maxb and paige met with Building Block Richmond Folks: http://bbk-richmond.org/
  • They have a "Digital Functionality and Access Working Group" http://bbk-richmond.org/working-groups/digital-functionality/
  • They were working with the internet archive previously to connect people/neighborhoods to their network, but basically hit a wall last year due to the force of nature that is Ralf
  • They have some new momentum around connecting folks, but have to sort of do so without the collaboration of the archive (they're gonna try to hop on the 2ghz open APs where possible)
  • Interestingly, the city of Richmond has taken a pretty serious interest in building their own infrastructure, so it might be easier to get in touch with them
  • The city might even be doing some fiber (maybe even fiber to the home)....

• maxb has been getting the firmware + configuration fine tuned and working on more devices
• Most recent barrier breaker builds: http://build-test2.sudomesh.org/builds

Compatible Home nodes

• MyNet n750
• MyNet n600
• TpLink WDR4300
• TPLink WDR3600
• TPLink WDR3500 (needs more testing)

Compatible extender nodes

• Ubiquiti Nanostation M2
• Ubiquiti Nanostation M5
• Ubiquiti Bullet M2
• Ubiquiti Bullet M5

• maxb has been working on a mesh-watchdog ping script
  • https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-packages/tree/master/net/mesh-watchdog
  • For now, it's a daemon that pings a given address (our exit server), and if it doesn't reach it after

• maxb has also been working on a dhcp hook script:
  • https://github.com/sudomesh/makenode/blob/master/configs/ar71xx/home_nodes/templates/files/etc/udhcpc.user
  • he thinks this will fix the weird downtime issues that some nodes have been experiencing