Ham Mesh writeups
Write up on tunnels and why we do, and don't, want to use them.
- Bluebox Mesh (BBHN and NW-MESH) brings
- basic networking practice and experience
- Ease of resource sharing and discovery/use
- Problems and shortcomings of basic Mesh
- blue boxes only have 30' range. Good for a home setup but that gets lonely
- slow 1.5 MB xfer rate
Write up a basic Mesh example system
- Three nodes - 2 radios is a link, 3 takes advantage of Mesh technology
- Node 1 - WRT54GS (extra system memory) with uplink to internet
- MESH GATEWAY checked here but not on the other two nodes.
- Installed services
- Standard NGIRCd
- try other web based Ham chat and/or Meshchat
- Node 2 - Remote camera server
- Node 3 - Access point Server for WIFI users to connect to the Mesh systems
- Plug an Access Point (AP) into one of the four LAN ports on the blue box
- Configure the AP with SSID - "MESH ACCESS" and access control as desired
- Plug an Access Point (AP) into one of the four LAN ports on the blue box
- Node 1 - WRT54GS (extra system memory) with uplink to internet
- Other ideas for the mesh
- All nodes running in DMZ mode so everything has a 10. address and there is no NAT networking.
- Run everything from 12VDC and batteries. Use wallwarts only for chargers
- Have a bigger server - like a Raspberry PI - as a system resource
- FTP service to take uploads from camera
- Metricom on serial or USB port, Yardstick 1,
- High Power WIFI client to bring in network, cache it, filter it.
Write up a Mesh Users exercise - examples of what can be done
- Connect to the MESH
- Hard wire from an computer to one of the 4 LAN ports on any of the blue boxes
- WIFI connect to the Access point - which is on a LAN port on one of the blue boxes
- Browse the status pages
- start with http://localnode:8080
- If Mesh is on the Internet - the time will be correct. If not, the year will be 2000
- web browse to the other boxes
- start with http://localnode:8080
- Secure Shell login to the blue box
- ssh -p 2222 root@localnode
- Access the IRC server running on Node 1
- From Linux command line - IRSSI
- Windows desktop - HEXCHAT - https://hexchat.github.io/
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