14 Mar
2018
14 Mar
'18
11:36 a.m.
Hi, I can't completely follow your setup but if I understood correctly
the problem is the following?
Your device is connected via WWAN but it doesn't announce it to the
rest of the network?
Did you manually ping 8.8.8.8?
Did you manually announce the uplink connection by running
/etc/watchping/wan-ok/bmx6-gw or bmx7-gw?
Best
On Mi, Mär 14, 2018 at 5:19 AM, Paul Harmor <psharmor(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You'll have to forgive me where I sound like a
smart-ass. It happens.
The FitPC2i (the current and best x86 machine I have for the purpose)
that I'm presently using has NOTHING BUT USB wifi capability. The
BUILT-IN interface is a USB rt2070-based radio. ANYTHING ELSE is
going to be USB also (since there is no PCI expansion capability).
But, it DID NOT MATTER whether or not the FitPC was the host I used,
and now I can state that BMX 6/7 mattered not, or even no BMX at all
(batman-adv only in use right this moment, STILL no autogw
functionality).
The autogw functionality is BROKEN! At least from my perspective, as
someone who would dd=of several usb / sd medium, for distribution
throughout my community for the sake of EXACTLY WHAT MESH NETWORKING
IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT...
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 6:02 AM, Nicolas Pace <nico(a)libre.ws> wrote:
On Sun, 2018-03-04 at 17:08 +0000, Paul Harmor
wrote:
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.
Hi Paul!
Despite your scenario is not the straightforward one (having a usb
wifi
interface as WAN), if this is a common scenario it would be good to
have it included.
Please, do share with us a little bit more on why you have that setup
so we can understand the case!
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.
Based on
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/blob/develop/packages/watchp
ing/files/etc/uci-defaults/90_watchping
watchping should be trying to test the connection every 20s and if
inet
found (by pinging google's dns 8.8.8.8 host) will run triggers.
If you have a vanilla libremesh setup, that means it will run this:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/blob/develop/packages/bmx6-a
uto-gw-mode/files/etc/watchping/wan-ok.d/bmx6-gw
and by doing so configuring bmx6 to be aware of that route to
internet
for both your local device and your networks.
If the network falls, this gets run:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/blob/develop/packages/bmx6-a
uto-gw-mode/files/etc/watchping/wan-fail.d/bmx6-gw
so it should change the path it takes to go to internet to one
neighbour of yours.
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.
Based on this:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/blob/55a063678fc570000ceb99b
9382ed22ccda8fce3/packages/watchping/files/etc/uci-
defaults/90_watchping#L6
it uses the interface wan for the check... so if you add your
interface
to it should do.
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.
BMX7 is not the default on LibreMesh, so you should not expect better
support there than on the default one.
Can you send the output of logread regarding this things?
Try to see what watchping says, it should be saying like the ones
here:
https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/blob/develop/packages/watchp
ing/files/usr/bin/watchping#L63
Regards,
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