Hacking Meraki

[Francesc]

Hi everybody!!
I'm new on the group. I've heard about it in meraki forums and I am
really interest on every website or forum where I can get info about
them. Of course, I will contribute in everything I can.

First of all, excuse me because I'm also more or less new in meraki
world, and I'm not sure if this is an old topic.

Previously I just wanted to add some applications (software) into
meraki platform to use the network on a specific system. I was
wondering on not take care about mesh and add some QoS to this system
mentioned. Over several weeks ago I realize that the EULA of meraki
had change from "free hacking" to "fuck off", and as I understood, if
you keep meraki OS, everything that you add in devices will be
overwrite or erase through the net. If I'm not right please correct
me.

If someone knows about how to implement additional software to the
existing one of meraki I would be pleasent of hear it. Otherwise, I'm
cheerful to try OpenWRT on merakimini and try to implement Mesh
routing protocol plus my wished QoS.

Everything is welcome.

Thanks! :)

[Richard B]

Hi,
I presume you are talking about the original Meraki Mini (or the
original Meraki Outdoor Mini, which is the same inside). I can't help
with adding applications to the Meraki firmware but the best approach
to flashing to the Open-Mesh combination of OpenWRT (plus Batman and
Robin) seems to be as described by William Rickman here:
http://ruckman.net/tech/2008/03/03/guide-to-flashing-a-merakiacctonfonero/
which tells you what to download as well as what to do. (Thanks,
William.)

In my experience using the Linux approach is best. I have found it
pretty reliable - but you MUST BE PATIENT as it takes ages, mostly
with no network activity.

The result is set to use the management facilities from
http://www.netequality.net/index.php though you don't have to do so.
To do so use the "Add Network" tab. Note that you must specify your
network type as RO.B.IN, not MERAKI.

Alternatively I presume you could use the basic OpenWRT Kamikaze
firmware from the OpenWRT site.

Having got set up you can SSH in to your box and take things on from
there - i.e. remove Batman and Robin if you wish and add other
things.

Hope that helps.

Richard

[Francesc]

Thank you. I'll try!!

On Apr 9, 8:54 pm, Richard B <richardjbow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I presume you are talking about the original Meraki Mini (or the
> original Meraki Outdoor Mini, which is the same inside). I can't help
> with adding applications to the Meraki firmware but the best approach
> to flashing to the Open-Mesh combination of OpenWRT (plus Batman and

> Robin) seems to be as described by William Rickman here:http://ruckman.net/tech/2008/03/03/guide-to-flashing-a-merakiacctonfo...

> which tells you what to download as well as what to do. (Thanks,
> William.)
>
> In my experience using the Linux approach is best. I have found it
> pretty reliable - but you MUST BE PATIENT as it takes ages, mostly
> with no network activity.
>

> The result is set to use the management facilities fromhttp://www.netequality.net/index.phpthough you don't have to do so.