lime January 2018

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13 discussions

by bruno vianna

Hello meshies I know everybody is having fun at Battle Mesh, but if someone could take a look at this I' d really appreciate. I really have my eyes on the C50, as it seems to be the cheapest dual-band on the market now. I can get on in Brazil for less than 40 USD! Last week I bought one which I later found out to be an unsupported V2. But now I got a V1, and it almost works. If it works, I'll the buy about 10 for an installation in two weeks. The problem seems to be with 802.11. The 2.4Ghz radio does not work in ad-hoc mode - although the 5Ghz radio does. Then I don't know if it's related, but when it meshes with a WDR3500, the Internet is painfully slow, with some ping times about 1000-2000 milliseconds. Pinging from the LiMe gateway at the same time gives me a steady 57ms. Perhaps a different driver should be used? Attached is a file with information gathered from the router. A few other oddities (not as important as the issue above): - Could not flash from stock directly with the compiled LiMe. I had to first use this openwrt [1], then LiMe - When I flash from the firmware above with the LiMe I compiled or the download Lede, I get the message: " It appears that you try to flash an image that does not fit into the flash memory, please verify the image file! Size: 7.63 MB (7.62 MB available)" It works fine, tough. - The firmware I cooked with my community settings (using cooker) won't go through to the Internet, and gives this ESSID instead of my community's:{{NETWORK_NAME}} (although it meshes with the LiMe gateway) - The firmware I cooked without community settings connects to the Internet through the LiMe gateway with the sluggish times above. Thanks! [1] http://dl.eko.one.pl/luci/chaos_calmer/ramips/luci-15.05-ramips-mt7620-Arch… -- bruno(a)pobox.com ▀─█▄██▄▀▄ http://brunovianna.net ─█▄██▄▀█▀█▄ skype: randomico▀─█▄██▄▀█▀█▄▌██─█▌█▌

5 years, 7 months

[lime-users] Little steps in the good direction

by Amuza

Hey sisters, Let me share some good news for community networks -and bad ones for ISPs: 0.- Bitmessage has been working on LAN peer auto-discovery. It is already in v0.6 branch, we tested it and it works. 1.- Retroshare will finally have asynchronous messaging working (Retroshare already has LAN peer auto-discovery). 2.- Impressive ZeroNet is aware of the importance of LAN peer auto-discovery and they are going to add this feature.

6 years, 5 months

[lime-users] Obstacles to a successful growth

by Amuza

Hi, Sometimes I explain what this community network thing is to someone in my district. They likes the idea and they has an ISP router. Then I ask them if they would like to share their Internet connection and they says "yes, why not?". But then they asks if users in the community network could have access to their private home network. I answer they could, but it can be avoided in different ways -create different VLANs in the ISP router, configure a firewall, closing ports in the computers... Then they stops liking this community network thing. It is frustrating, because many people do not share their Internet connection because of this, and so we lose the resources we need. I was wondering if there would be a way that LiMe could come preconfigured in such a way that, when an Internet gateway is added, it could only communicate to that ISP router, and no other host in that private network. I mean to automatically create the proper firewall rules so that the LiMe network could not access hosts in private networks. That would not be real security, as that configuration could be removed by any administrator in the community network, but we would be able to start our answer saying "by default LiMe cannot enter into your private network", and then explain what they could do to improve their security. What do you think of it? Have you found this obstacle? What would you reply to that person? Is my proposal doable? If so, should I open a Github issue? Where? In lime-packages?

6 years, 11 months

[lime-users] IRC #libremesh...?

by Ilario Gelmetti

Hi all! Sorry for pointing out an annoying fact, but our IRC channel is not working as user support contact. In my opinion should be removed from our contact page on the website. Most of the questions being asked there remain unanswered because either we're not answering fast enough or the users disconnect without waiting enough for an answer (many users are not used to IRC). This has never really worked. It's neither being used for discussions about development as devs are not often active there. We can just remove the suggestion to contact us via IRC (as seems it's not a valid contact anymore) and recommend just the mailing list. Otherwise we can move the channel to another chat system. What do you think? Do we need to have a more effective chat for user support or just using this mailing list is enough? Bye, Ilario

6 years, 11 months

[lime-users] LiMeCat2018q1

by Ilario Gelmetti

Dear all, there will be a LibreMesh hackaton in CSOA Matakrostes [1] for the weekend of 10th-11th of February. You can participate to the meeting remotely via Matrix chat (also accessible via IRC) [2]. Ciao, Ilario [1] Passeig de Sevilla 132, Valldoreix, Barcelona https://guifi.net/VDXpgSevilla132 [2] https://libremesh.org/communication.html

7 years

[lime-users] Troubleshoot still disturbs

by Nges B

Hello here, I have been trying to troubleshoot my router this days again. I don't know what I did for it to start connecting to my computer. But I still get issues. I can't connect to thisnode.info I have followed the troubleshoot tutorials again and when I run the command ip -4 address show scope global or ip route. I get the follow up address 10.5.5.0/24 I don't know which to use to connect. Nevertheless, I have tried 10.5.5.0 and 10.5.5.24 but none of the above still connects. I have tried ip -4 route show scope global. But I get no result. When I run the route -n or netstat -nr , i get 10.5.5.0 or 169.254.0.0 as the kernel IPS. The gate way is 0.0.0.0 for both IPS and genmask is 255.255.255.0 and 255.255.0.0 respectively. Nevertheless, when I try connecting to the router using ssh root(a)10.5.5.0 I get network is not reachable. When I try 10.5.5.24 or 169.254.0.0 , I get no route to host. When I run sudo netdiscover I get 10.5.5.55 as the IP of the tp link router. When I ssh root(a)10.5.5.55 , I get connection refused. My knowledge is finished. So I really need help on setting up this router. Note I have very limited knowledge in networks so my questions might be dumb at times. one the things I will love to achieve is to do my final year project on libremesh. Thanks and waiting to hear from you At your service Nges Brian

7 years

[lime-users] Translations

by Henrique Mohr

Hello all! I was doing some translations on .lua files (or hard translations if you so) to pt-br. And then i realized that lime has translations for ENG and ESP in some files with .lmo extension. I saw where the code generates its .lmo files but idk how to proceed. Any effort on that way? Henrique

7 years

[lime-users] Bug in last bmx6

by pau

Last LibreMesh builds might be broken due this bmx6 bug https://github.com/bmx-routing/bmx6/issues/12 If you are experiencing IPv4 connectivity problems in your mesh networks (no traffic at all), it might be because of this. You can check the bmx6 version running in your nodes by executing "bmx6 -c --version" Cheers.

7 years

[lime-users] Request to add more "Router Model"'s for snapshot builds to chef.libremesh.org

by Mark Birss

Hi All There are no support for kirkwood/generic devices ? I want to build for cloudengine devices cloudengines_pogoe02-initramfs-uImage <https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/kirkwood/generic/openwrt-ki…> c3c6ff87aabdfceeba71920ecaf06359a18c34e49e4bb2575798a4eda16194e8 2943.3 KB Thu Jan 18 07:43:30 2018 cloudengines_pogoe02-squashfs-factory.bin <https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/kirkwood/generic/openwrt-ki…> b71bf0593b13aecc86f1551998b2a9cc363bf44f1f9ceb6c6185549c51041e8a 3456.0 KB Thu Jan 18 07:43:31 2018 cloudengines_pogoe02-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin <https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/kirkwood/generic/openwrt-ki…> c31a47a9422976886251a392062f8d9a1d209cb51dc7585a2136148c96b31e91 3070.2 KB Thu Jan 18 07:43:31 2018 cloudengines_pogoplugv4-initramfs-uImage <https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/kirkwood/generic/openwrt-ki…> 75028e870f3aeae4845b58cb658add4862a1c3b406a08b5582a73aec2730c69d 2943.4 KB Thu Jan 18 07:43:30 2018 cloudengines_pogoplugv4-squashfs-factory.bin <https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/kirkwood/generic/openwrt-ki…> 9cc403dccd9508e72a93c261f37eca706cc329d12d326ae613ea41a141a630e6 3456.0 KB Thu Jan 18 07:43:31 2018 cloudengines_pogoplugv4-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin <https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/kirkwood/generic/openwrt-ki…> Kindly add them Regards

7 years

[lime-users] Fwd: GSoC 2018 Ideas

by Ilario Gelmetti

GSoC ideas needed :) (read below) -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: GSoC 2018 Ideas Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:32:51 +0100 From: Paul Spooren <spooren(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de> To: lime-dev(a)lists.libremesh.org CC: Ilario Gelmetti <iochesonome(a)gmail.com>, pau <pau(a)dabax.net>, Daniel Golle <daniel(a)makrotopia.org>, guifipedro <guifipedro(a)gmail.com> Hello, the new GSoC [1] is coming up and all organizations can apply with fresh ideas. This year the deadline is already on 23.01 so we should move quick! Luckly, the german Freifunk community created a website to collect ideas [2]. We could discuss here needed features and projects and decide who writes a (short) proposal for the website. I already did so and created an project proposal to work on the new bmx7 [3]. As I'm still a student I'd very much like to participate again. Last year I worked on the image server and chef [4] which slowly gains some attention. If possible I could continue the work on that as well. So far so good, Paul [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ [2] https://github.com/freifunk/projects.freifunk.net-contents [3] https://projects.freifunk.net/#/projects?project=bmx7_semtor_web_interface&… [4] https://chef.libremesh.org

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