[sudo-discuss] wifi is borked

Sat May 20 18:58:07 PDT 2017

Hello Folks, here is an update.

UNPLUGGED RUCKUS AP AT SUDOROOM:
Several hours ago, after I sent my previous email, I disabled the Ruckus AP
at Sudoroom (Ommni Commons), so that we can remove it out of the equation,
while the troubleshooting happens. I only left the one in the 2nd floor
running.

HP SWITCHES:
*The HP 2nd Floor and Sudoroom Bottom Switches logs report that every five
minutes the DHCP is "updating" their IP and Subnet masks (I don't know
about the Dell Switches, I have not access to them). The action that I took
was to set the ip helper-address to 100.64.64.1, but this didn't help.  The
switches continued updating IP+Subnet Mask every 5 minutes.

* I also looked at the ports counter at the server room HP bottom switch
(Network 100.64.64.0) and they have high packet drops, specially the
interface 100.64.64.1 with 1.4 Billion Bytes. This switch was factory reset
las weekend, so counters were clean a week ago.

DHCP SERVER:
It seems that Marc is on the right track. Can someone with access to the
DHCP Server-Firewall Ubuntu Server, please, take a look at it?

PON-SudoMesh-Basement NODES:
I noticed that all PON and SudoMesh nodes are blinking faster than the rest
of the connections, and have also have an orange light.
Are we seeing the orange light because the nodes are running on 100Mbits or
because they are having issues? Again, these Nodes plug into the Dell Top
and Bottom switches that I don't have access to. I never thought I would
need to, so I never mentioned. :p

Thanks!

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been on the upstairs 'Omni Commons' access point all day and it's
> doing great for me! I did have some finicky DNS issues earlier, but a
> simple page reload resolved the addresses each time. Havent had any in a
> few hours.
>
> Great work, Daniel & co! \o/
>
> On May 20, 2017 8:52 AM, "danarauz at gmail.com" <danarauz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As a follow up:
>>
>> I have been on OmniCommons SSID for a while now, and no issues. I just
>> swapped to "SudoMesh-1-2.4 to compare TCP stack with Morgan's, and what we
>> saw is that his DNS IP is pointing to his machine itself (127.0.0.1 and to
>> Search), while on my mac I get our router's 100.64.64.1.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 7:14 AM, danarauz at gmail.com <danarauz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And by the way, I am using "Omni Commons", signal that comes from the
>>> Second Floor by the public computers. :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 7:07 AM, danarauz at gmail.com <danarauz at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The one at Sudoroom, and the one at the Second Floor AP are not
>>>> routers, they are Access Points, more like extenders.
>>>> This means that they don't run any DHCP or DNS resolution themselves.
>>>> Like the Mesh or PON's do.
>>>>
>>>> I am at sudo right now, and as I just mentioned to Morgan (yes we are
>>>> both here this early), we still have the other AP (the one at the second
>>>> floor) plugged into the network. So how come the network is not having
>>>> issues when that AP also ends here at the same switch?
>>>>
>>>> The ONLY thing that comes to mind at this moment is that the new setup
>>>> may be at fault is that the Ruckus Wireless Controller may see the
>>>> Sudomesh,and PeoplesOPen.net, as malicious rogue clients/APs/Routers (or
>>>> something alike) and tries to block them. But I will look into that right
>>>> now after this email.
>>>>
>>>> Anyhow, I also added that would be good to know the source of the issue
>>>> as soon is possible, because if the new setup its an issue, then I should
>>>> stop until that issue is resolved. And if it is not the source of the
>>>> problem, so I can continue without the feeling that I may be annoying folks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Morgan Allen <morganrallen at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I unplugged the Omni Commons routers and it appears to be working
>>>>> better
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>>>>> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 3:25 AM, danarauz at gmail.com <
>>>>> danarauz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> FYI: Changes I made last Saturday:
>>>>>> 1- Install Ruckus WiFi Controller (creating the "Omni Commons" SSID.
>>>>>> 2- install one Ruckus AP
>>>>>> 3- firewall ethernet cables passing through the hp switches, then
>>>>>> from the HP switches to the Dell Switches, as follows:
>>>>>> Top HP Switch to Top Dell Switch;
>>>>>> Bottom HP Switch to Bottom Dell Switch.
>>>>>> 4- Some cables from the Bottom Dell Switch were moved to the Bottom
>>>>>> HP Switch, mostly runs coming from the building. Like the second floor
>>>>>> computers, for example.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Changes that happened on Thursday night:
>>>>>> 1- Remove the switch located at the second floor, and installed an HP
>>>>>> PoE.
>>>>>> 2- Remove the PON Node that was at the wall, it was disconnected
>>>>>> anyways.
>>>>>> 3- I installed a Ruckus AP on the bin above the publici computers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OTHER CHANGES THAT I AM AWARE HAPPENED:
>>>>>> 1- Steve's IPFS server got moved to the server room, and we plugged
>>>>>> in the HP Bottom Switch.
>>>>>> 2- Yesterday, Thursday night, Steve made me aware that there is a
>>>>>> laptop in the server area downloading some stuff. I don't recall the name
>>>>>> of who the laptop belongs to. He mentioned, so I do not think that it was
>>>>>> an abandoned laptop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Will be good to know soon what is the cause of the shaky WiFi,
>>>>>> because I am planning to continue installing APs, tomorrow, and maybe
>>>>>> Sunday.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Marc Juul <juul at labitat.dk> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sounds like maybe a rogue dhcp server?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> i definitely noticed serious problems tuesday night that fit this
>>>>>>>> description,
>>>>>>>> the internet was basically unusable.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 19 May 2017, Morgan Allen wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> After changes made on Tuesday the wifi has been super flaky. DNS
>>>>>>>>> lookups
>>>>>>>>> start failing after a certain period, disconnecting/reconnecting
>>>>>>>>> wont fix
>>>>>>>>> but switching APs might. But it will happen again on that one. So
>>>>>>>>> far I've
>>>>>>>>> seen similar symtons on sudomesh, peoples and Omni Commons
>>>>>>>>>
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