Mesh/24 April 2014

Attendees

• Max, Dan (working on raspi or beaglebone meshing - trouble with batman), Jeremy, Deekoo brought beer!, John, Ryan (has worked with dd-wrt before, is connected at home with sonic.net, his first meeting), Marc, Eric (has a bit of experience with open-wrt, interested in donating bandwidth), Mike (does large scale IT for a living, is curious)

Updates

• Dan found portal that he likes - from Tunisia mesh:
• Deekoo did "burn in test" on nodes and it ran ok for a few days
• Dan is maybe having trouble with internet connectivity through node - he's interested in
• John is interested in building local apps
• Jeremey wants to know about trouble Dan had building sudowrt?

Design

https://github.com/sudomesh/luci-app-simple-design

ToDo

Firmware ToDo: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware General ToDos: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos

Donations

https://www.gittip.com/sudomesh/

General Questions from new Folks

• Ryan has a question:

   - What kind of hardware does sudomesh recommend?
   - Deekoo suggests newbies looking to contribute hardware start with 5GHz gear
   - 5GHz works great for point-to-point but not well for multipoint. Recommending folks use 5GHz for p-p then bridge with 2.4 for mulitpoint access.

• Eric asks, "What's the cheese machine?" cheese.local from the sudoroom AP

Documentation

• Marc put together a firmware todo: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware

Technical

• Dan is interested in debugging node at home
• Firmware
  • Get hardware watchdog for picostations and ar71xx
  • Node monitoring (alex?)
  • Add trigger for listening to ethernet being plugged in and unplugged
  • Implement password reset
  • Error reporting in web admin interface
  • Find co-location facility with good bandwidth deal and hopefully locally.
  • Deal with situations where home network is 10.* (currently mesh address)
  • Have a test for internet to switch batman gateway settings

• 10.? problem/* Splash page */
  • Mesh needs one subnet for everyone. Currently on 10. which interferes with some home networks
  • Maybe local networks are only using a certain smaller subset
  • Research unused military subnet?
  • Ipv6?

Outreach

• You can donate to us at https://www.gittip.com/sudomesh/ !!
• We want lots of tiny donations!

Operations

• We might piggyback on Slovenian group who is using lasers for long range optical connections