[Commotion-discuss] Commotion-discuss Digest, Vol 13, Issue 6
Dan Staples
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
Wed Oct 16 17:07:55 UTC 2013
Thanks for the update. For the splash page issue you were seeing, that's
a known bug (and I'll file a bug report right now). Basically, what I
think is going on, is that when you click either the "internet" or
"local apps" buttons to authenticate, it sometimes takes longer for the
node to register you as authenticated than it does to redirect you, and
thus it splashes you again. In other words, you'll have to click through
the splash page 2 or 3 times before you actually get redirected to where
you're trying to go. Super annoying!
If you encounter it again, try clicking through a couple more times, and
let me know if it still doesn't redirect you. In the meantime, I'll add
it to my list of things to fix.
Thanks for the report!
Dan
On 10/16/2013 12:26 PM, Daniel Hastings wrote:
> Hey Dan,
>
> Must have erased the section about the splash page. Sorry about that. I
> could not get the splash page to disappear on the password protected
> network and it would not appear on the open student network. Fixed the
> issue by checking the immediately authenticate box on the closed
> network. I first tried the allowed hosts/subnets and could not get it to
> work but the immediately authenticate option works fine. Everything is
> back to normal now but I'll let you know if it happens again. As for
> the DNS issue. I think it may have been a problem with one of my local
> DNS servers. I set each node to use the local server rather than the
> open DNS servers that I normally use and it did not seem to work. I'll
> have to check my configuration on my local servers. Everything seems to
> be ok for now. Sorry for the clarification error. Thanks for the help.
>
> Dan
>
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> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:27:06 +0300
> From: Dan Hastings <dhastings at abaarsotech.org
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> Subject: [Commotion-discuss] Strange Splash Page Behavior
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> I just set up our second commotion network at school for the teachers. I
> put the network on a different channel (7) and added WPA2-PSK
> encryption. The first odd thing I noticed was when using the
> unencrypted student network I picked up the wrong DNS servers.
>
> I also noticed that I could connect to the student network and receive a
> really good signal from my room. Normally I could not even connect to
> the student network from this location. It seemed like the two networks
> were intertwined but when I checked the OLSR page they are definitely
> not connected. I'm not sure if this is an issue I have with my router or
> with my commotion nodes.
>
> I'm using the latest overnight build on the teacher encrypted network
> and just the DR2 stable release on the student network.
>
> Thanks for the the help.
>
>
> Dan
>
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> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:53:55 -0400
> From: Dan Staples <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
> <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>>
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> Subject: Re: [Commotion-discuss] Strange Splash Page Behavior
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> Hi Dan,
>
> Can you give a little more detail about the DNS issue? What was it set
> to, and how did you find out? Usually one's computer will set its DNS
> server to the one(s) specified by the router, which is sent in the DHCP
> response. So unless you manually configured the DNS servers your
> computer uses, it should be using the router itself as the DNS server.
>
> And what was the strange splash page behavior you experienced?
>
> -Dan
>
> On 10/15/2013 12:27 PM, Dan Hastings wrote:
> > I just set up our second commotion network at school for the
> teachers. I
> > put the network on a different channel (7) and added WPA2-PSK
> > encryption. The first odd thing I noticed was when using the
> > unencrypted student network I picked up the wrong DNS servers.
> >
> > I also noticed that I could connect to the student network and
> receive a
> > really good signal from my room. Normally I could not even connect to
> > the student network from this location. It seemed like the two
> networks
> > were intertwined but when I checked the OLSR page they are definitely
> > not connected. I'm not sure if this is an issue I have with my
> router or
> > with my commotion nodes.
> >
> > I'm using the latest overnight build on the teacher encrypted network
> > and just the DR2 stable release on the student network.
> >
> > Thanks for the the help.
> >
> >
> > Dan
> >
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