lime March 2018

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9 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▀─█▄██▄▀█▀█▄▌██─█▌█▌

4 years, 9 months

[lime-users] Current options of a captive portal for LiMe

by Amuza

Hello, Here we are considering again the captive portal thing. It would be a welcome page with some community news, not real authentication. I guess we would like a system where MAC addresses of users who just clicked an "Ok" button of the splash page would be validated for a month. So they would have to go through this News page once a month. I've seen Nodogsplash seems to be maintained again, so I can try to make it work for LiMe. But first I wanted to ask about Pitbull, as I think that was something similar but specially made for LiMe. What is the status of Pitbull? Would it work for the described need? Thank you!

5 years, 8 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.

5 years, 8 months

[lime-users] 3g/4g USB modem plugged into LibreMesh router

by Patricio Gibbs

Has anyone used a 3g/4g USB modem plugged into a LibreMesh-ed router as their Internet connection? We want to know if it works, and how you configured it. In central Ecuador, we want to plug a USB cellular modem into a router running LibreMesh, and use that as our Internet connection. It's supposed to be a short-term solution while we work on getting a wired connection, and given the conditions, it may turn out to be a decent backup connection for a while. However, we'll calculate the long-term costs compared to a wired connection, so the community can make an informed decision. ~ Patrick

6 years

[lime-users] DIY signal boosters

by amuza

Hi, What is your experience with Do-It-Yourself Wi-Fi signal boosters? Anyone tried the one on the attachment? Cheers

6 years

[lime-users] Gateways fail to be offered on latest chef builds

by Paul Harmor

After weeks of trial and error and troubleshooting on several different Chef builds (1x ar71xx/wndr3700v2, 3x x86 of all different hardware), default LiMe 802.11s profile, I've come to the conclusion that watchping or some other link in the chain is failing to offer the gateway. At any time, if any node loses WAN uplink, it and it's clients will sit without internet for hours, while still communicating with all other nodes and machines on the network. After some chat in the dev channel, the fact that I was using USB WiFi devices as WAN interfaces, set up with the LEDE/OPENWRT default WWAN iface name, became suspect as the cause. Unfortunately however, neither changing the reference in the watchping settings in /etc/config/system, nor changing WWAN to WAN as the actual interface used made any difference. The nodes CAN communicate (thus not the usual "can't ping" bug), Uplink is recognized as lost by watchping, but the node with one does not ever offer it up. Once again, this is with the default 802.11s profile, meaning BMX6. I have not yet tried BMX7, as I'm not sure how to migrate from one to the other in place.

6 years, 1 month

[lime-users] LiMe FAQ

by Amuza

Hi, When discussing an issue on Github [0] it was considered the need for some further talk on some LibreMesh topics. A good way to trigger that talk could be to prepare a FAQ section that would clarify some aspects of the project -maybe goal of LibreMesh, its benefits, its network behavior, the ethics supporting that behavior, security concerns, whatever. Having a FAQ section could calm down some security-conscious people who are becoming interested in community networks. Please visit the etherpad [1] and add/change/delete whatever you want, questions and answers. I dared to answer many things they might not be correct. Same for grammar. Once everyone is happy about the text, it would be very helpful to have that FAQ on the website. Making things clear can boost the growth too, and I might not need that network-profile I requested!! [0] [0] https://github.com/libremesh/network-profiles/issues/24# [1] https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/limefaq

6 years, 1 month

[lime-users] Looking for articles/docs on libremesh in a home environment

by David Medland-Slater

Hi everyone. I've got a 2 node system up and running and I wanted to find out if there was any general advice on configuring this for a home network to keep it secure. My neighbour and I share a common interest in technology, but we agreed over the garden fence we didn't want to share each of our home wifi networks or at this stage broadband, although the broadband sharing might come later. The libremesh site is helpful especially around what the config file does, but I'm looking for any pointers or links to reference material on home usage. In particular leveraging the mesh side to provide good home coverage, but not open sharing with the outside world initially. Anything the list members can point me at very much appreciated as both of us have hunted round and the type of information we have found is a bit too technical for either of us to apply. Cheers Dave

6 years, 1 month

[lime-users] Libremesh users and developers in Internet Freedom Festival?

by al

Some of you are going to the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia March 5th to 9th? I'm not sure yet if I'm going this year. https://internetfreedomfestival.org/

6 years, 1 month

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