[Commotion-dev] meshing over ethernet

[Myles]

So plan b for meshing in production is to use WPA on the mesh interface and firewall OLSR to be unreachable from non mesh interfaces. Right?

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> On Jul 2, 2014, at 7:25 AM, Chris Ritzo <critzo at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:
> 
> Miles,
> I was discussing this thread with some other team members this morning,
> and we think you've confirmed a bug that we found in our 1.1rc2
> connectivity tests.
> 
> Those tests confirm that two nodes meshed via ethernet will work when
> not signed and fail when signed. Your report that turning off Serval
> signing makes the center Buffalo node work properly.
> 
> Our team is still debugging this and will be pushing feedback to Serval
> about it, however in the interim, turning off route signing via Serval
> should solve this for you.
> 
> I'm sure Josh and Will can weigh in on more specifics related to the bug.
> 
> -Chris
> 
>> On Wed 02 Jul 2014 07:06:52 AM EDT, Dan Staples wrote:
>> The current master branch is now using an upgraded version of olsrd,
>> version 0.6.6, but doing a diff b/w the versions doesn't show anything
>> that would affect the route signing. So it should be fully compatible.
>> 
>> Is your setup something like this?
>> 
>> [ubiquiti]---wifi---[ubiquiti]---ethernet---[buffalo
>> center]---wifi---[buffalo]
>> 
>> I can try to recreate a similar setup and test it tomorrow when I have
>> access to a test network. I'm not sure if we've extensively tested mixed
>> wifi/ethernet meshing and route signing together.
>> 
>> Did you see any log output from the center or ubiquiti devices when
>> route signing was turned on that could indicated what the problem was?
>> 
>> Also CCing a couple other folks that might have some good
>> troubleshooting ideas.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>>> On 07/02/2014 03:24 AM, miles wrote:
>>> This is giving me no end of trouble. I've now tested, and with all
>>> firewalls turned off
>>> 
>>> 3 ubiquiti nodes will mesh using serval over wifi. As you said, it takes
>>> a few minutes,(but not more than 5) to settle. 
>>> 2 Buffalo nodes will mesh over wifi. 
>>> 1 buffalo node "Center" is connected to one ubiquiti over ethernet.
>>> Turning off serval signing makes everything work as expected through
>>> node Center.
>>> 
>>> Turn on serval, and center sees buffalos, but will not communicate with
>>> the ubiquiti device.  
>>> 
>>> Thoughts for what to test/debug next? 
>>> 
>>> The buffalos were build using master last week. Ubiquitis are 1.1rc2.
>>> Does master play nicely with 1.1 right now?  The next thing I can think
>>> of to try is to rebuild with commotion feed as 1.1 and see if getting
>>> the same olsrd version will magically fix things. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 1, 2014, at 7:48 AM, Dan Staples
>>> <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
>>> <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Serval signed routes will work without a gateway/NTP. However, it will
>>>> definitely take up to 5 minutes for the timestamps to converge. They
>>>> *will* converge though, even if the starting clocks on the nodes are
>>>> days or months apart. Give it a few minutes and see if it starts working
>>>> again.
>>> 
>>> 
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