Good Evening Everyone!

First off, if this has been answered someplace else, I appologize for not being able to find it. My google-fu appears to have failed me this evening.

I live in the middle of rural northern Wisconsin and am looking to setup a tunnel server to allow some other rural, out of RF range hams to connect to my Mesh network in order for us to play/drum up interest in the system in the hopes that other hams in the area will become interested once they see the system in action.

What I'm wondering is this. I have an EdgeRouter X as my home router (core router if you will) and it currently is acting as an OpenVPN server (listening on interface vtun0) for my home network and does a reasonable job at it. I'm also sure I can add other virtual tunnel interfaces (vtun1 for example) that the Mesh Tunnel server could listen in on. I'm just wondering about the particulars of the tunnel server/client (protocol, etc) and if anyone else has already done this and could point me in the right direction that would be awesome as well!

Anyway, I hope everyone is having a great evening!

Thanks and 73,

de W9HDG

Hi,

  I put up a new node today on channel 1 and saw someone playing around with a bunch of nodes around 6pm today. They look like they are down now, but on the off chance that you read this, drop me a line.

Jeff N2TIQ

Hello Everyone,

We have been working here in Central Florida to get more activity and we have made progress.

Here is a link to see our current set of connections

If your interested in connecting via a tunnel through the internet. contact myself (KD4WOV) or Ben W4QED.

http://w4qed.hamshack.info:8888/topology.html

Hello Everyone,

  We have been working here in Central Florida to get more activity and we have made progress.

Here is a link to see our current set of connections

If your interested in connecting via a tunnel through the internet. contact myself (KD4WOV) or Ben W4QED.

 A little more information is following.

The Pi that I am trying to get the topology bbhn-utils to work on is also a Pi NODE. I am sure that this will have an affect on how the program works. If you have a fix or it won't work at all, please let me know.

 I have the bbhn-utils topology working on my ubuntu Pi. (16.04.02) at http://w4qed/hamshack.info:8888/img/topology.png and I'm trying to help another ham get it working on his Raspbian GNU/Linux 8. Anyway everything seemed to install well using:

sudo apt-get install phthon3 graphviz imagemagick awscli xdot -y

 I am getting the following error when running topology.sh (after a very long delay):

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 1174, in do_open
h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1090, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1128, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1086, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 924, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 859, in send
self.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 836, in connect
self.timeout, self.source_address)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/socket.py", line 509, in create_connection
raise err
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/socket.py", line 500, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
TimeoutError: [Errno 110] Connection timed out

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mnt/bbhn-utils/topology.py", line 96, in <module>
lines = urllib.request.urlopen("http://" + HOST + ":" + str(PORT) + "/").readlines()
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 153, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 455, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 473, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 433, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 1202, in http_open
return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPConnection, req)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 1176, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out>
convert: unable to open image `/tmp/topology.png': No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2712.
convert: unable to open file `/tmp/topology.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3922.
upload failed: ../../var/www/html/topology.png to s3://media.ve3irr.ca/bbhn/topology.png Unable to locate credentials

I am wondering if it is because it is having trouble accessing the NODE? It is linked to a WRT54GS. Now I did change the topology.sh from:

/home/pi/bin/topology.py > /tmp/topology.dot

to read:

/mnt/bbhn-utils/topology.py > /tmp/topology.dot

Of course using:

sudo ./topology.sh

Thanks,

Ben ARS w4qed

I found have found a really good guide here :

https://www.scc-ares-races.org/mesh/doc/D2D_Linking_BBHN_Ubiquiti_v150504.pdf

Here is how I am set

Everything works fine except the WAN part of the node A

NODE B and the LAPTOP get their IPs from the NODE A

The DHCP Server is disabled on the router.

I dont know what i'm doing wrong... Any idea ?

Hi.

     I have a lot of ubnt pico and a few yagis  and switches and I was wondering if I could link 2 nodes together via a switchs, so I could have one yagi pointing east and one pointing west. and if so can you point me to a guide / tutorial on how to do so.

Thank you

Bruno

VE2WYD