WLAN-JerryLab

Jerry WLAN! - Hacking Party Mesh & Jerry (-> https://fabelier.org/jerry-wlan-lab/ )

Challenges

Configuring the server for a mesh-network. Apache, Varnish, insert here make 2 nodes connect with each others over mesh [BATMAN + ...] routing users over a mesh network [...] explore file-system level syncing capabilities among nodes part of the same network [...] redesign the web interface for the piratebox app [HTML + CSS] + Justine.

Schedule

17h - 17h15: Challenge presentation 17h15 - 17h30: Pairs composition (2 brains, 1 keyboard) 17h30 - 18h: discuss the HOW ? => what are the tasks to be done during the 1st sprint ? 18h - 19h30: Sprint 1 20h - 20h30: Review1 + food + discuss the next round => task list update 20h - 21h: Sprint 2 21h - 21h20 : Review2 + food + discuss the last sprint => task list update 21h30 - 22h30: Sprint 3

Sugestions

• Trying to work with possibility to disconnection? -> Asynchronous sync?
• bittorrent protocol between Jerry for sharing data ? -> Bitorrent need a tracker

Turn a wifi adapter into an access point : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/MasterMode

Software

wicd-curses :: network manager in term wget curl elinks lynx :: term web browser hostapd :: screen :: htop :: Processing monitoring in term varnish ::

Configuring Etherpad-lite as a daemon : http://wiki.fabelier.org/index.php?title=Configure_Etherpad-lite Configuring Varnish : http://wiki.fabelier.org/index.php?title=Configure_Varnish

Documentation Batmand

• http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki
• http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/BranchesExplained
• http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Doc-overview
• http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batmand/wiki/Doc-overview
• http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/FAQ
• http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/Experience

Man batmand :: B.A.T.M.A.N

• http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/man8/batmand.8.html

Examples

• batmand eth1 wlan0:test

   Start batman daemon on interface "eth1" and on  alias  interface "wlan0:test"

• batmand -o 2000 -a 192.168.100.1/32 -a 10.0.0.0/24 eth1

   Start batman daemon on interface "eth1" with originator interval
   of 2000 ms while announcing 192.168.100.1 and 10.0.0.0/24.

• batmand -s 192.168.1.1 -d 1 eth1

   Start  batman  daemon  on  interface  "eth1",  sending  topology
   information to 192.168.1.1 and with debug level 1 (does not fork
   into the background).

• batmand eth1 && batmand -c -d 1 -b

   Start batman daemon on interface "eth1". Connect in client  mode
   to get the debug level 1 output once (batch mode).

• batmand -g 2000kbit/500kbit eth1 && batmand -c -r 1

   Start  batman  daemon  on  interface "eth1" as internet gateway.
   Connect in client mode  to  disable  the  internet  gateway  and
   enable internet search mode.