Hi all,

I am new to BBHN.....great technology!  Whoever dreamed this up is a genius.

I have a mesh node up with a Raspberry Pi computer attached.  I have installed a web server on the R-Pi which is working, but I am unable to advertise it as a service.  I have looked and looked through all the docs and can't find any details on how to advertise a service.

I have a DHCP reservation setup for the raspberry pi computer , and it (the R-Pi) shows up on the mesh status page.  I also setup a service for the web server on the setup page, with the link box checked, but the service does not show up on the mesh status.  I have tried both with and without doing port forwarding on port 80, again to no avail.

I have also tried to setup the server with the name of the P-Pi and the mesh node name as the URL, but neither works.  I'm stumped at the moment.  I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but can't figure it out.  The LAN mode is set as 5 host Direct.

I'm very interested in setting up a mesh for our county ARES to serve a couple hospitals as well as any other emergency services that want to jump on board, like Fire or EMS.  One of my goals is to enable email to an RMS gateway to allow email to the rest of the world from within our local mesh.

Any help this forum can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Mark, KD0QYN

Hi,

I am trying to connect a network camera (Panasonic) to a mesh node. I have the LAN in NAT mode with an IP of 192.168.0.254, mask 255.255.255.0. The camera IP and port are static at 192.168.0.253, Port 81. Please look at the attached screen capture and let me know what I did wrong or right. Some of the documentation I've read on this site is old and/or conflicting. I set up port forwarding, from inside port 81 to any outside port 8100 (I also tried 80 to 80). Do i need to do a DHCP address reservation? (tried that also) I've tried everything...well at least I think I have!

Thanks,

Paul

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I have made small changes in sources OBCM v1.07.b12 for compile on Raspberry PI and I have success running OpenBCM on my Raspberry PI. If anybody want know what need to make changes in sources and makefile please contact  with me, I will share with this  solution.
You can see how working OpenBCM  on my Raspberry PI

http://sp2ong.ampr.org:9080

73 Waldek sp2ong

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I'm not clear on exactly how addressing and routing works over the network. If I try to run a traditional client/server application over the mesh network, what would my address for the server look like?

On a wired network it could be "myServer" using netbios or blahblah.net using dns, or 10.10.1.15 using IP. How do I best address on a mesh network?

Thanks,

Bernie
K2YO

I just got two WRT54GLs and started installing the firmware. Apparently, somewhere along the way the second one got corrupted and will no longer connect to the workstation. Here's what happened:

1) I installed the firmware according to instructions and all went well with node "alpha". It is working fine. 

2) I did the same thing with "beta" and it was working fine. I figured out how to log into it using ssh after having uploaded an SSH key file and was logged in using SSH from the workstation. When I went back to the admin webpage however, the webpage had gone back to "NOCALL", so I sighed and figured I just needed to re-run the setup. I got an error message when I tried to save my callsign "error - unable to save config data"  or some such. A few more tries and I decided to try a hard reset - press the reset button for 30 seconds. Now, I get nothing - the node will not connect with the workstation. 

3) I tried using wireshark to watch the ethernet traffic. I can see the node ("cisco-...") trying to do an ARP but nothing further. 

I guess I need to reload the firmware. Any ideas or are there instructions somewhere as to how to do this without a network connection?

Correct. You will acquire one of five DMZed ip addresses. The difference is in x-Host Direct, you are on a 10.x.x.x/24 address, and in NAT you move to a 172.27.0.x/24 address reservation.

Thanks ... that seems simple enough. I suppose that once I reestablish connections with the node changing back to a DMZ related mode will require the same new IP acquisition... correct?

73 de Andy WA8ZLK

That is to be expected. Unplug the Ethernet cable from your device that goes to your computer, wait a minute and plug it back in. It needs a new IP address.

I changed mode on my node WA8ZLK-003 to NAT and promptly lost ability to connect node via usual http://localnode:8080. What happened? How do I recover from this?

You may try disconnecting the Ethernet cord from the PC for about 20sec. Try http://localnode:8080  What is the IP address of your computer? Is it dhcp or static?

I could not find a post on this topic.  If there is one please send me a link.

I have installed the firmware and configured through step #4. I have only one node.  My computer is connected to a LAN port still, the node is connected from the WAN port to my router (through a switch). I am trying to access the webgui.  Using localnode:8080 shows it being redirected to the status page.  The status page returns a 404.  When using http://callsign-1.local.mesh:8080/ it is getting a 404 without being redirected.

Now I may need some help on this but I would believe that the nodes would work within the net the using wireless interface. To connect to computers or the internet at my station, would I use only the LAN or WAN or both?

Thank you.

Jim

Thanks for the links, this is what I got for the IP addresses if anyone else would need this information:

www.broadband-hamnet.org -> 71.42.236.91
ad5oo.ham-radio-op.net -> 76.244.79.194

From the sourcecode, these are the two server paths for firmware updates:
http://broadband-hamnet.org/download/wrt54g
http://ad5oo.ham-radio-op.net/download/wrt54g

It's all good. I understand what you are doing now.

Take a look here:
http://www.wikihow.com/Find-a-Website's-IP-Address