[Commotion-discuss] Send mesh routes to upstream router

Thu Jul 14 14:45:12 UTC 2016

Hi Josh,

We did some testing last night and I just wanted to update you that the 
BGP routing was successful!  I was able to see the OSLR routes populate 
in the BGP routing table, and, after adding the upstream subnet to the 
HNA announcements I was able to access the upstream network from mesh 
clients with no NAT.

Cheers!
Chris

On 13/07/2016 11:02, Josh King wrote:
> Hey Christopher,
>
> That was pretty much what I was going to suggest, you beat me to it :-)
>
> Let me know how that works. If it works out of the box it may be something worth documenting for
> other users who want to use auxiliary routing protocols to interconnect networks.
>
> On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 10:20 -0700, Christopher Munz-Michielin wrote:
>> Hey Josh,
>>
>> Just wanted to update you on this as I managed to get Quagga and bgpd
>> installed/configured. The trick was to change my repository to the
>> vanilla OpenWRT repo
>> (http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/routing/),
>> and run 'opkg install quagga quagga-bgpd quagga-zebra'  After that I was
>> able to configure the software as normal and brought up the adjacency
>> without issue.
>>
>> I'll do some testing later to make sure the OSLR routes are being
>> advertised (I did enable 'redistribute oslr' in the config) just don't
>> have any mother mesh nodes connected right now to verify with.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On 08/07/2016 06:12, Christopher Munz-Michielin wrote:
>>> Hey Josh,
>>>
>>> I had a chance to test out opkg and was unable to even update the
>>> package lists:
>>>
>>> root at AP-Test-2223136168:~# opkg update
>>> Downloading
>>> http://downloads.commotionwireless.net/router/1.1/ar71xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz.
>>> wget: not an http or ftp url:
>>> https://downloads.commotionwireless.net/router/1.1/ar71xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz
>>> Collected errors:
>>>   * opkg_download: Failed to download
>>> http://downloads.commotionwireless.net/router/1.1/ar71xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz,
>>> wget returned 1.
>>>
>>> When I manually browse to
>>> http://downloads.commotionwireless.net/router/1.1/ar71xx/generic/packages/Packages.gz
>>> it redirects me to the https:// version of the site and looks like the
>>> version of wget that is shipped with the commotion firmware doesn't
>>> support https.  Any idea if I can install a newer version of wget?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>> On 06/07/2016 08:42, Josh King wrote:
>>>> Hi Christopher,
>>>>
>>>> Well, you can see if quagga is available in the repositories currently
>>>> configured by running this on the router CLI:
>>>>
>>>> opkg update
>>>> opkg list | grep quagga
>>>>
>>>> And then install it with 'opkg install' (space permitting). If it's not
>>>> in the default Commotion repositories, I can walk you through adding
>>>> additional repos.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 08:38 -0700, Christopher Munz-Michielin wrote:
>>>>> Hi Josh,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the reply.  I'd like to run BGP on the commotion router
>>>>> and
>>>>> have it communicate routing info back to the edge router, but am not
>>>>> sure how to get Quagga (or similar) up and running on the commotion
>>>>> firmware, any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 06/07/2016 08:23, Josh King wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Christopher,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are a few different ways you could approach this. I can think
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> three right off the bat, but there may be more. They all have their
>>>>>> own
>>>>>> advantages and disadvantages:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * You could run BGP or similar on the nodes or on the edge router;
>>>>>> they
>>>>>> would share the kernel routing table with OLSR, but as long as it's
>>>>>> set
>>>>>> up in such a way that they don't clobber each others' routes it
>>>>>> should
>>>>>> be fine. I'm not familiar enough though with setting up BIRD,
>>>>>> Zebra/Quagga, or similar to know exactly how to configure it to
>>>>>> pass
>>>>>> along all of the OLSR routes as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * You could split it up by subnet and configure the routes
>>>>>> statically.
>>>>>> The problem here is that all Commotion nodes self-select their
>>>>>> addresses out of the same private subnet, so you'd need to
>>>>>> configure
>>>>>> the nodes to select out of separate subnets manually.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Since the nodes already run a dynamic routing protocol (OLSR),
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> could create a VPN tunnel between the two networks. Then they can
>>>>>> dynamically pass their routing traffic themselves between the two
>>>>>> networks. This would require setting up a VPN tunnel, and could
>>>>>> potentially experience performance issues as the network scales
>>>>>> (OLSR
>>>>>> is a chatty protocol to be sending over a narrow VPN pipe).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hopefully that helps. Let me know if you have any thoughts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:45 -0700, Christopher Munz-Michielin
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just starting to play around with the Commotion firmware as I'm
>>>>>>> part
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> a group of ham radio operators looking at starting a localized
>>>>>>> mesh
>>>>>>> using ubiquiti M2's.  So far I'm impressed by the firmware but
>>>>>>> did
>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>> one question: Is it possible to run a dynamic routing protocol
>>>>>>> (such
>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>> OSPF, BGP or RIP) to send information about the connected mesh
>>>>>>> devices
>>>>>>> to an upstream router?  Our architecture would be something like
>>>>>>> this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Internet------------Edge Router---------------Mesh
>>>>>>> node-------------------Additional mesh nodes-----------local
>>>>>>> subnet
>>>>>>>                                         |
>>>>>>>                                         |
>>>>>>>                             Non mesh network
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can add static routes to the edge router, but doing so would be
>>>>>>> cumbersome and potentially time consuming, especially if we are
>>>>>>> adding
>>>>>>> new nodes frequently so a dynamic protocol would be preferred.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Chris
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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