[lime-dev] lime-altermesh deployed in DeltaLibre

Today is a very happy day, even though i slept only two hours in the whole weekend :P after preparing the lime release candidate these past weeks, with all the *code written by Gio*, i compiled an imagebuilder from scratch using *p4u's lime-build* ath-ib uploaded it to *altermundi's chef*, https://chef.altermundi.net/downloads/ib/r42398/ar71xx/ then prepared an image for *DeltaLibre* with that https://chef.altermundi.net/fwprofile/deltalibreorgar-r42398/ and cooked the first *LiMe-based AlterMesh* complete release flashed that to a pair of lab devices at hand, and after confirming nothing would blow out badly, i sysupgraded 8 devices in DeltaLibre's gambado river (where it all started, 3 years ago, and which was still running one of the first altermesh versions) http://libremap.net/#bbox/-34.40620151141123,-58.57924103736878,-34.4006246… everything went out reasonably smooth (i'm still counting how many hours till i bump into some nasty, ugly ath9k hang :P) well, to be honest, i spotted already in my table-lab a new ath9k issue, where 802.11n speeds are not initially negotiated in IBSS VIF, and apparently starts to work after a wifi reset or something. Didn't care to debug it much, since i wanted to focus on having LiMe-AlterMesh deployed. These 8 sysupgraded nodes are not the first ones; the are 9 "LiMe-Full" nodes in a cloud that has been running since march in angostura river http://libremap.net/#bbox/-34.419973858189636,-58.56451034545898,-34.408821… giving a current total of 17 lime-based nodes, servicing real people everyday this is the WAN port traffic at the gateway in the 9 LiMe-Full cloud http://status.red.libre.social/graphs/type=port_bits/id=216/ so, to put it in perspective: even though i haven't touched legacy AlterMesh code for months, this marks the official abandonment of that codebase, since we now have an equivalent firmware built with LiMe, as we had originally planned back in Berlin's WCW 2013 - having achieved this milestone i want to share a hurray! with you all :D coding and developing takes some time, yet coordinating efforts between different communities is incomparably harder, so this determines the project progress, which then is basically a reflection of the members' social bonds strength :) code is just code; insignificant, even ugly code, in comparison to what happened behind the scenes that originated it it's no coincidince that during these last few months, Nico, Jesi and I had the opportunity to share time together, in person so that we could smell each other (as Isaac coined once :D), as well as Gio and Pau on their side too, which also helped hold mumble meetings, or that Al & Gri recently went to Mexico, to materialize the workshops that (unknowingly to Al) we had informally imagined with Peter Bloom at the start of the year; then crossing borders to visit SudoRoom, to weave one more strand in the free networks social fabric ;) speaking of which, a few days ago surian (from Brasil!) met pau and gio... and now jow is dropping in the party as well!? you sure are having fun, so cheers to all \o/ \o/ \o/ ps: (or back to topic?) while crashtesting the release, i took the time to report two "pseudoblocker" bugs, not particular to lime; they don't affect the (clients) end-user experience, but greatly annoy admins work on ssh sessions and debugging http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.ssh.dropbear/1573 https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2014-September/027815.html [0]: lime-altermesh is basically a subset of lime-full that runs only batman-adv, i.e. without lime-proto-bmx6 and lime-proto-anygw. Thanks to Gio's work, it was trivial to create the metapackage and have a fully working firmware equivalent to the old AlterMesh.