Hi!
I'm Matteo from Ninux Bologna,
we are a Italian growing wireless community network and we use openwrt.
I bought a pair of TP-Link CPE510
(
https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-cpe510) to test
libremesh/openwrt on it because we are trying to find reliable
alternatives to Ubiquiti Nanostation M2/M5.
I checked the TOH of openwrt seeing that v1 was well supported, but the
CPE510 that arrived to me are v1.1.
Chaos Calmer seems to need a patch to support these antennas
(
http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=commit;h=c8315df1affa8eadb2ccbfd421…).
I tried to edit the file adding the lines indicated in the diff and now
it's compiling, we'll see if it works.
I found that "stock" Designated Driver works well on the antennas, so I
built a libremesh image (with the manual process, not with lime-build),
it went well and it installed on the CPEs.
the images have been compiled following these steps:
https://wiki.bologna.ninux.org/mediawiki/index.php/CompilareDaOpenWrt-TRUNK
beware they are customized for our network:
https://repo.bologna.ninux.org/BleedingEdge_DesignatedDriver_20160208_01_li…
I know that on the site is written that building from trunk is not
supported, has anything changed?
Should I expect any known problems?
Having it installed on 2 identical devices, may I contribute in any way?
I have found what seems to be a problem: if I connect a client with eth
I can reach the rest of the network (the common gateway anche the ips of
the other devices) via IPv4 ONLY IF IPv6 is enabled, otherwise I can
reach only the recources I am attached to (in my test only the ip of the
antenna).
thank you very much,
Matteo