12 May
2018
12 May
'18
7:24 p.m.
In our network there are three nodes in a chain connected via cable
(UTP). Let's call the gateway node A -- it connects via Ubiquiti
antennas to a VDSL modem (which should change to a fiber optic
connection this month).
The nodes were all running LiMe 16.07. Today I flashed node A with LiMe
17.06 (made with Chef, full LibreMesh, tl-wdr3500-v1).
Now some Android phones connect to the wifi, detect no Internet, and
automatically disconnect, and this happens on all the nodes (B and C are
still running 16.07). After trying to connect for a while (maybe 15 or
30 minutes), some of these phones detect Internet and stay connected,
while others never detect Internet. Other phones detect Internet
immediately and work fine. Computers (GNU/Linux and Windows) detect
Internet okay.
Looking at LuCI for node A, only itself appears in the Mesh Nodes list,
even when people are connected to Internet via node C. Accessing node B
and C LuCI works (via casadiego.lan and casafaby.lan), and in their mesh
nodes lists, only they appear, not node A.
All this didn't happen before upgrading node A.
I disabled 5 of the 6 wifi networks on node A because I thought there
might be a problem with all the extra wifi networks, but that didn't help.
I could upgrade nodes B and C to LiMe 17.06 and see if that makes
everything work again, since it seems that there's something
incompatible about nodes running different versions of LiMe, but I'd
rather just revert to LiMe 16.07 until someone can explain this
malfunction and promise that my phone will detect the Internet
connection if I upgrade all nodes.
However, I can't find the .bin files to flash node A, and the backup I
make of node B isn't a .bin file. If I could find those old files, I
would also happily test 17.06 on all the nodes, but I can't find any
.bin files of LiME 16.07.
I could also try modante's solution to a different problem, "manually
running the script /etc/watchping/wan-ok.d/bmx6-gw", but it seems
different than this problem.
~ Pato
13 May
13 May
1:59 p.m.
Solved. To figure out more precisely what wasn't working, I disconnected
the cable from Node A to Nodes B and C, and then my cell phone detected
Internet. So I decided it must be incompatibility between versions of
LiMe. Now we've upgraded all three nodes, and the phones detect the
Internet connection.
A case study in what not to do: halfway upgrade a network and think that
it's broken, when it just needs to have the rest of the nodes upgraded.
;)
~ Pato
On 05/12/2018 02:24 PM, Patricio Gibbs wrote:
In our network there are three nodes in a chain
connected via cable
(UTP). Let's call the gateway node A -- it connects via Ubiquiti
antennas to a VDSL modem (which should change to a fiber optic
connection this month).
The nodes were all running LiMe 16.07. Today I flashed node A with LiMe
17.06 (made with Chef, full LibreMesh, tl-wdr3500-v1).
Now some Android phones connect to the wifi, detect no Internet, and
automatically disconnect, and this happens on all the nodes (B and C are
still running 16.07). After trying to connect for a while (maybe 15 or
30 minutes), some of these phones detect Internet and stay connected,
while others never detect Internet. Other phones detect Internet
immediately and work fine. Computers (GNU/Linux and Windows) detect
Internet okay.
Looking at LuCI for node A, only itself appears in the Mesh Nodes list,
even when people are connected to Internet via node C. Accessing node B
and C LuCI works (via casadiego.lan and casafaby.lan), and in their mesh
nodes lists, only they appear, not node A.
All this didn't happen before upgrading node A.
I disabled 5 of the 6 wifi networks on node A because I thought there
might be a problem with all the extra wifi networks, but that didn't help.
I could upgrade nodes B and C to LiMe 17.06 and see if that makes
everything work again, since it seems that there's something
incompatible about nodes running different versions of LiMe, but I'd
rather just revert to LiMe 16.07 until someone can explain this
malfunction and promise that my phone will detect the Internet
connection if I upgrade all nodes.
However, I can't find the .bin files to flash node A, and the backup I
make of node B isn't a .bin file. If I could find those old files, I
would also happily test 17.06 on all the nodes, but I can't find any
.bin files of LiME 16.07.
I could also try modante's solution to a different problem, "manually
running the script /etc/watchping/wan-ok.d/bmx6-gw", but it seems
different than this problem.
~ Pato
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14 May
14 May
2:05 p.m.
Yes, many times we had to try mixing versions 16 and 17 - because new
hardware worked only on v17 and captive portal was on 16 - and it was
always a big disaster.
On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Patricio Gibbs <patricio(a)altermundi.net>
wrote:
Solved. To figure out more precisely what wasn't
working, I disconnected
the cable from Node A to Nodes B and C, and then my cell phone detected
Internet. So I decided it must be incompatibility between versions of LiMe.
Now we've upgraded all three nodes, and the phones detect the Internet
connection.
A case study in what not to do: halfway upgrade a network and think that
it's broken, when it just needs to have the rest of the nodes upgraded.
;)
~ Pato
On 05/12/2018 02:24 PM, Patricio Gibbs wrote:
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In our network there are three nodes in a chain
connected via cable
(UTP). Let's call the gateway node A -- it connects via Ubiquiti antennas
to a VDSL modem (which should change to a fiber optic connection this
month).
The nodes were all running LiMe 16.07. Today I flashed node A with LiMe
17.06 (made with Chef, full LibreMesh, tl-wdr3500-v1).
Now some Android phones connect to the wifi, detect no Internet, and
automatically disconnect, and this happens on all the nodes (B and C are
still running 16.07). After trying to connect for a while (maybe 15 or 30
minutes), some of these phones detect Internet and stay connected, while
others never detect Internet. Other phones detect Internet immediately and
work fine. Computers (GNU/Linux and Windows) detect Internet okay.
Looking at LuCI for node A, only itself appears in the Mesh Nodes list,
even when people are connected to Internet via node C. Accessing node B and
C LuCI works (via casadiego.lan and casafaby.lan), and in their mesh nodes
lists, only they appear, not node A.
All this didn't happen before upgrading node A.
I disabled 5 of the 6 wifi networks on node A because I thought there
might be a problem with all the extra wifi networks, but that didn't help.
I could upgrade nodes B and C to LiMe 17.06 and see if that makes
everything work again, since it seems that there's something incompatible
about nodes running different versions of LiMe, but I'd rather just revert
to LiMe 16.07 until someone can explain this malfunction and promise that
my phone will detect the Internet connection if I upgrade all nodes.
However, I can't find the .bin files to flash node A, and the backup I
make of node B isn't a .bin file. If I could find those old files, I would
also happily test 17.06 on all the nodes, but I can't find any .bin files
of LiME 16.07.
I could also try modante's solution to a different problem, "manually
running the script /etc/watchping/wan-ok.d/bmx6-gw", but it seems
different than this problem.
~ Pato
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