The static IP is placed on the Windows WIFI interface that you intend to use.

I used 10.x.y.z where x.y.z are the decimal equivalents of the 3 least significant hex bytes of the MAC address to make an address to use.

I connect the interface to BroadbandHamnet-v1 first, then start OLSR Switch (it should start with Default.olsr). I look for the interface address in the OLSR Switch Interface list and check it. Then I hit save and start. I switch to the Nodes tab and in a few seconds the members on my mesh appear.

I can then ping or connect using 10.x.x.x addresses with relevant apps like IRC, Mumble, web browser, ssh, etc.

DNS does NOT work. OLSR Switch does not have the DNS Plugin. You might be able to use your 

hosts file:

%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts


to record DNS names on your mesh as a hack to fix this (I havent bothered).

IPV6 does NOT work. Version 5.6-r3 does not have IPV6.

But IPV4 using numerical addresses works just fine.

73;

Bob KV4PC

Ok I will be try to setup my laptop and Andriod to connect with my WRT54G with HSMM firmware 1.0. It will be nice have to this. Because not all local ham radio operators must buy and use WRT54. We can setup local Mesh Nodes with WRT54 to cover local area use Hamnet network by hamradio operators. One problem for me is that anybody who install on own hardware olsr can connect to our network ?

73 Wladek sp2ong

Yes. I posted about this a while back.

http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/hsmm-mesh-forums/view-postlist/forum-4-applications/topic-614-olsr-switch-on-windows-works-to-connect-directly-to-the-mesh.html

Works OK on windows except for DNS and IPV6. Im using the last version of OLSR-Switch that was posted as a binary by the olsr.org folk. I havent been able to successfully build the latest version which fixes IPV6.

I havent gotten it to work on Android because my devices are Motorola which has two issues - insufficient power available at the USB port (could try a powered hub and USB OTG adaptor), and rooting is required to activate ad-hoc mode. Some android devices dont have these issues.

73;

Bob KV4PC

Hi,

Is it possible use laptop + wifi card or Tablet-Andriod with installed OLSR software to connect HSMM-Mesh local network ?

73 Waldek sp2ong

I don't think the data rate loss will be from antenna switching, it comes from the fact that your node is the relay between two other nodes.  It has to receive from one node, then transmit to the other node.   Antenna switching shouldn't matter much.

I would expect about 50% data rate when forwarding traffic from one node to another vs. originating or terminating the data.

You're not the first one to report that removing the power overnight or for a few days unbricked a router.  It's worth a try.

I bought a JTAG setup a while back, to use on 3 bricked WRT54GS I had, and after they had been sitting on the shelf for several (5-6) months, they were mysteriously Un-Bricked..... I was able to go ahead and flash them to my surprise, and they now work great.

Never had to go the JTAG route...

Reset password with safe mode.

Installing software with tftp.  (Look near the bottom.)  It works better from a linux machine, but can be done with a Windoze machine.

When done, stick a label on the router and write the password on the label. 

A very quick way of checking that the tunnel is OK is by pinging the remote end pointopoint IP from your own node in CLI mode.

Ie, login to your node using SSH and issue the command 'ping x.x.x.x' without quotes and the x.x.x.x representing the remote end pointopoint IP.

Hi Ron, here in Barrie we also started off using v1.0.0 firmware for GRE tunneling. And yes, if the tunnel comes up properly you should see the node names from the far end of the tunnel on your Mesh Status screen. Note that the "status: up" for tun1 on the OLSR screen doesn't mean that the tunnel is "operational". It only means that the tunnel (tun1) was configured properly in that node and the tunnel is capable of coming up. If the nodes at both ends of the tunnel show "status: up" but no nodes are displayed on the Mesh Status screen after 5 minutes; check your DynDNS account to see what was entered by the scripts when they were executed. You can enter an incorrect IP in DynDNS for each node and then reboot it, the IP should be corrected by the scripts when they are run.

Some other problems we experienced here in Barrie:

1. The octal (chmod value) had not been set properly for the different script files. 
2. The internet router had not been configured properly to pass port 1723 and to allow PPTP protocol 47 traffic. 
3. Errors in properly entering the 2 new lines needed in crontabs/root. 
4. Didn't reverse the two tunnel IP's in the ifconfig lines at the far end of the tunnel. 

Hope this info helps. 73

Really nice to see that this function is spreading.

From being a very local solution between two locations in south of SM to be an international success :)

This idea really initiated between me and a fellow ham and as we had no RF path I started investigating the possibilities to set up some form of tunneling between us as a temporarily solution :)

Hi,

Yes, that would be a possible solution, however I would like to see several gateways, at least one in each continent, that can share the hostsdatabase on a daily basis.

Also we would need to make sure we can squeeze the RIP function into the WRTs which is easier said than done.

I´m not really sure that this is within the scope of the original developers of HSMM/BBHN as they foresaw an independent network solution (this has somewhat been put aside when we started tunneling traffic), but it is an interesting approach nevertheless.

To make a long history as short as possible, the GRE development for HSMM was initiated by me and a fellow HAM in a neighboring city since we did not have any RF path between us.

So this GRE development was really only going to be a temporarily solution until we could make sure we had enough density of nodes to be able to reach eachother with RF.

Since then some other needs arose and now it seems like this is a very neat solution for bringing really remote locations together, such as city to city mesh networks.

I am trying to a setup and advertise access to web service. Step by step would be appreciated

thank you

Hello, All..

Awhile back I flash a wrt54g with 0.4.3 firmware and configured it as a mesh, and wrote all my info down for the unit. My attention was to play around with the hsmm-mesh with a few hams in my area.

Well, those hams haven't respond back to me so the unit has sat for a couple months collecting dust. But my problem lies in that I just got my hands on wrt54gs, so light bulbs goes off Ill do my own work with the two unit I know have.

Fired, up the original wrt54g v2 with 0.4.3 firmware to update it to new broadband firm. Went to setup and my user/password is not working. I have even tried the original root/hsmm still will not let me into setup. Have I screwed myself or is there away for me to reset the user/password so I can update this unit.

I want to get this original unit updated before working on the other I have which is a wrt54gs v2. I was also wonder can a wap54g access point be used with hsmm in some way, I was given one along with the wrt54gs I just received?

My goal with this is to learn hsmm-mesh, along with networking and operating a server. Seeing I have 2 routers that I can hopefully get hsmm-mesh running on I want to use one of my raspberry pi's as a server hooked to one node and then the other node to my laptop. Eventually make one unit totally portable to run in my truck.

My last question, if Im not pushing my luck on the other questions is; Im have been skimmer threw the Linksys wrt54g ultimate hack book, are any of the mods they talk about in the book benifical  with using the wrt54g router with hsmm-mesh?

Thank, you for any help that can be thrown my way

Jason Hopkins

KF4PMY

aj26scm@yahoo.com

Kingsford Heights, IN