Antecedents
Version 1 (Nicolás Echániz, 05/07/2013 08:06 pm)
| 1 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | h1. libre-mesh antecedents |
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| 3 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | h2. AlterMesh |
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| 5 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | AlterMesh was designed as a simple fully auto-configurable firmware for multi-radio nodes to enable the deployment of community networks in small towns that usually lack technically oriented people with specific networking skills. It's part of the MiniMaxi network model developed by AlterMundi. It uses batman-adv as dynamic routing protocol and takes advantages of the L2 cloud for easy public IPv6 provision. |
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| 7 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | h3. Components: |
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| 9 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * "firmware":https://colectivo.altermundi.net/projects/altermesh-packages/repository: |
| 10 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** batman-adv-auto-gw-mode, gw_mode=master on Internet connected nodes |
| 11 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** batmesh-autoconf, batman mesh auto-config |
| 12 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** safe-reboot, config testing and revert on fail |
| 13 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** watchping, versatile ping watchdog |
| 14 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** altermesh-webgui, minimalistic web gui (work in progress) |
| 15 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * chef, firmware "cooker" http://chef.mesh.altermundi.net |
| 16 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * "altermap":https://colectivo.altermundi.net/projects/altermap, federated "network map":http://mapa.mesh.altermundi.net (CouchApp). |
| 17 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * "ruci":https://colectivo.altermundi.net/projects/ruci, remote config administration |
| 18 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Librenet6 mesh tunnel broker |
| 19 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * dynamic global hostname resolution |
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| 22 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | h2. qMp |
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| 24 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | It is a firmware to easy and quick build a mesh network. It tries to be as generic as possible. |
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| 26 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | Two modes: |
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| 28 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Roaming: for quick deployments, for instance to cover a natural disaster |
| 29 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Community: for network communities such as Guifi or NiNux |
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| 31 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | Each mode has its own needs. User can select his mode. |
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| 33 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | h3. Characteristics |
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| 35 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Complete LUCI-based web interface |
| 36 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** Wizard |
| 37 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** Configuration |
| 38 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** Tools for measure the network |
| 39 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** Tools to monitorize the network |
| 40 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Native IPv6 (ULA if user does not configure public ipv6) |
| 41 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * IPv4 is tunneled over IPv6 backbone ( There is some MTU stuff to take in account ? ) |
| 42 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Use VLAN tags to isolate routing protocol |
| 43 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Each interface can be configured in three modes: |
| 44 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** LAN |
| 45 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** WAN |
| 46 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** MESH |
| 47 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Shell tools to manage and monitorize the system |
| 48 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** qmpcontrol |
| 49 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | ** qmpinfo |
| 50 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Auto-upgrade system implemented |
| 51 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Complete autoconfiguration system |
| 52 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Map Tool based on OpenStreetMaps (b6m) |
| 53 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Gateway checker (gwck) to auto-publish internet |
| 54 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * TINC VPN to manage the nodes in remote |
| 55 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Structured as feed for OpenWRT (in packages) |
| 56 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Splash screen support (configurable via web iface) |
| 57 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Small chat using bmx6 sms plugin :-P |
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| 59 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | h3. Components |
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| 61 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * qmp firmware |
| 62 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * qmpfw a powerful tool to build automaticaly the firmware from a shell |
| 63 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * synctincvpn cake-PHP web interface (for manage the network in remote) |
| 64 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * synctincvpn client (installed in the nodes) |
| 65 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * LUPI, a Lua API for OpenWRT |
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| 68 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | h2. eigenNet |
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| 70 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | For eigenNet we have developed a set of tools, to help deploing the community network in the simplest way possible ( just flash and plug ). |
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| 72 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | h3. Key Features |
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| 74 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | Completely decentralized and human indipendent autoconfiguration, native client roaming in the same cloud, basic multicast support, L3 agnostic, (a lot of other things i don't remember now :| ) |
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| 76 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | h3. Components |
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| 78 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | Nodes based on openwrt with batman-adv does just L2 things except for gateway checking |
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| 80 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * eigennet-autoconf autoconfigure the nodes to make the mesh and/or make hotspot |
| 81 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * eigennet-bwtest Bandwidth Measurement Tool using nc yes and pv commands |
| 82 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * eigennet-bwtest-webui Bandwidth Measurement Tool Web Interface (need some refactoring to be luci compatible) |
| 83 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * eigennet-firewall Layer 2 Firewall based on ebtables, provide common rules out of the box ( like DHCP isolation ) |
| 84 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * eigennet-gw4server IPv4 Gateway Checker ( i think this si the same as altermesh batman-adv-auto-gw-mode ) |
| 85 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * eigennet-httpinfo Export info via HTTP protocol ( just some cgi script on uhttpd ) (need some refactoring to be luci compatible) |
| 86 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * eigennet-pointing Antenna Pointing Tools |
| 87 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * eigennet-pointing-webui Antenna pointing tools Web Interface (need refactoring to be luci compatible) |
| 88 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * eigennet-reghack Regulatory domain unlocker |
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| 90 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | Server ( Border gateways and various services) based on gentoo |
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| 92 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * babeld as L3 routing (read routes directly from routing table, powerfull route filtering - announcing, forwarding and also receiving! -, near to 0 footprint on vpn/wired links) |
| 93 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * babeld-route-share a little daemon that check "static" routes validity and add/remove them from routing table |
| 94 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Anycast DNS |
| 95 | 1 | Nicolás Echániz | * Anycast ipv6 gateway ( we are doing this only for ipv6 because in ipv4 we are natted so it would break some connection ) |