Re: [lime-users] [lime-dev] Release 16.07 "Community Chaos" officially out

Thanks to everyone involved, finally we have an official release! * generic binaries, meant for testing or setting up temporary networks (i.e. when having the default AP SSID = LibreMesh.org is fine) http://downloads.libremesh.org/community_chaos/16.07/ * customized binaries with chef, meant for stable community networks (basically, you can preset a specific AP SSID and other settings common to the whole network, and then flash many routers in a row) can be generated at: http://chef.libremesh.org/ Changelog since "BiggestBang" 15.09: • Now based on OpenWrt Chaos Calmer 15.05.1 • Removed "firewall" package (which is included by default in vanilla OpenWrt/LEDE), since it's not really being used in LibreMesh setup. It can always be installed on a case-by-case basis using opkg. ∘ there's a new minimal system that runs /etc/firewall.lime on boot (if "firewall" is not installed) • Removed "odhcpd" since we're not using it at the moment (we use dnsmasq) • Removed "odhcp6c" since we're not using it at the moment (we still haven't solved how to deal with native IPv6 coming over WAN, i.e. propagate a delegated prefix over the mesh in a reasonable way) • New default packages: "lime-hwd-openwrt-wan" and "lime-proto-wan". This checks if there's a WAN port, and automatically configures as "wan" proto (lime-proto-wan). The "wan" proto let's you assign in /etc/config/lime, for example, 802.1ad VLANs over the WAN port. • New default package: "lime-hwd-ground-routing". Allows you to configure 802.1q VLANs on embedded switches, so that you can separate specific ports and put • New default package: "bmx6-auto-gw-mode", so that when a node detects (with watchping) it can ping 8.8.8.8 over WAN port, a bmx6 tunIn is created on-the-fly, and Internet is shared to the rest of the clouds. • Workaround for an spurious log message caused by BATMAN-Adv ("br-lan: received packet on bat0 with own address as source address"): a "dummy0" interface is created and added to bat0, with a slightly different MAC address ∘ https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2014-March/011839.html • New available packages: "lime-proto-bgp", allows to do BGP with bird daemon; and "lime-proto-olsr", "-olsr2" and "-olsr6", which add support for all versions of OLSR. • Some new settings possible in /etc/config/lime-defaults ∘ wireless.htmode lets you preset the htmode for any wireless radio (or htmode_2ghz and htmode_5ghz for specific bands) ∘ wireless.distance is the equivalent, for setting distance (and distance_2ghz / _5ghz) ∘ system.domain for setting a cloud-wide domain name • New "named AP" interface by default: in addition to the shared SSID (where clients roam between nodes), there's a new AP with a different, unique SSID (it includes the node hostname). This lets people easily check with any stock smartphone (not only Android with a special app) which nodes are online, nearby, and their respective signal strength. Most importantly, it lets them connect to a specific AP and prevent roaming, when they need it. Roaming is a nuisance if you're in the middle of two nodes, with similar RSSI, but different performance (bandwidth to Internet). Finally, it gives users a very easy way to reliably access a specific (nearby) node webinterface, simply associating to a specific AP and browsing to http://thisnode.info/ • Fixed all alfred facters (bat-hosts, dnsmasq-distributed-hosts, dnsmasq-lease-share), so that they retry the "alfred -r" when it fails (i.e. in slave mode) • LiMe web interface received love: ∘ luci-app-lime-location (Simple Config -> Location) now works ∘ Simple Config -> Advanced