[Commotion-dev] ubiquiti auto-reset

[Josh King]

Ah cool, I didn't realize that was Réseau Libre. I was talking with them
the other day about adding Babel support to Commotion.

On Thu 30 Jan 2014 04:54:53 PM EST, Mathieu Lutfy wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> Some Reseaulibre.ca folks created their own PoE reset using this spec:
> http://dren.dk/mreset.html
>
> It would indeed be very cool to combine this with an arduino/raspi
> to automate testing.
>
> Mathieu
>
> 2014-01-30, 16:25:41 -0500, Josh King (jking at opentechinstitute.org):
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was speculating today about how we might be able to more smoothly
>> automate testing on our various testbed networks. Particularly, I was
>> thinking about how CONFINE uses a recovery device as a "parent" to power
>> cycle a stuck node (http://wiki.confine-project.eu/hw:recovery-device).
>> This made me think about how some Ubiquiti POEs have a reset button that
>> is able to send a signal over the wire to flip a node into TFTP mode in
>> the same way as the reset button on the node itself. I was wondering if
>> anyone was familiar with how that process actually worked (I assume
>> through sending some hi/low signal on one of the ethernet pins that the
>> chipset in the node recognizes), and if it was possible to simulate it
>> using an Arduino or similar. It would be great to be able to pair
>> testbed nodes with something like a raspberry pi that could remotely
>> reset and TFTP nodes with new firmware and run network tests independent
>> of the nodes themselves.
>> -- 
>> Josh King
>> Lead Technologist
>> The Open Technology Institute
>>
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Josh King
Lead Technologist
The Open Technology Institute

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