23 Jan
2014
23 Jan
'14
8:44 p.m.
Hey Pau, I fixed my issue with a generic libre-mesh firmware and then copying one by one
each uci setting (changing MACs and IPs).
With patience and manual work I have almost same libre-mesh router than other ones :) It
is a work I made to try to understand it all and try to document it and make it
automatically with chef.
Anyway as say Ufo: it's a good idea to try to implement that feature if we limit that
feature only for tplink an ubiquiti models we use regularly. Maybe I didn't explain
it very well it was not a exact bit-by-bit copy. It's like Ufo said.
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De: "Ufo" <ufo(a)rund.freifunk.net>
Para: dev(a)lists.libre-mesh.org
Enviados: Miércoles, 22 de Enero 2014 21:33:12
Asunto: Re: [lime-dev] Copy an exact firmware from one router to other
we in leipzig were using that feature for years with openwrt
white-russian. the config within linksys hardwrae was saved in nvram.
remembering old times: that was very nice, even when ONE node in the
mesh had newest current firmware there was no need for using that
poor
internet connection anymore (for updating all other nodes.)
we did this f.i. via webinterface,
look at
https://twitter.com/rundfreifunk/status/426087173721714688/photo/1
and we were differencing between some hardware models..
i had a talk with jow some weeks ago asking the same question:
yes, we should be very sceptical, according to all these hardware and
differencies.
but, maybe it could be even possible? if we limit that feature only
for
some of these tplink models we use regularly?
greetings, ufo
Am 22.01.14 15:50, schrieb Pau:
IMHO copying bit-by-bit is a big mistake because
the flash roms of
the
routers can be different and there are some parameters (such as the
MAC
addresses) which cannot be used in another router.
I don't know about this White-Russian feature, but the current
OpenWRT
AA/BB versions have a "Download backup" button which generates a
tar.gz
of the overlay directory. So if you install the a new (fresh)
binary in
the new router and you copy the tar.gz content to /overlay. You
should
end-up with the same configuration.
On 22/01/14 14:54, al wrote:
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Hello, I remember first times with Freifunk
firmware (OpenWrt
White Russian):
They put in main web page a link with a direct download of image
that was working in same router. I suposse that it was generated
from binaries when you click on.
I think is a very good tool to make network bigger with same
routers (you don't need to connect to any place to get firmware).
Do you know about that?
I think we can put it on libre-mesh (and also I need it now to
make easy an exact copy from one of our libre-mesh routers here
in Garraf).
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