Node Pine Street Goes Offline Monday, August 16th.
Michael Weinberg
(http://www.personaltelco.net/NodePineStreet) offline. I'm moving to
California next month, and I don't plan to take the hardware with me.
If anyone is interested in acquiring the Node, I will part with it for
the very reasonable price of you-pick-it-up.
If the node with mounting pole is not spoken for by tomorrow evening,
the pole will likely end up hauled away, but I'll hang onto the radio
for a little longer.
I also have some Orinoco/Proxim wireless cards with external antenna
jacks to get rid of. These are a bit outdated, but are very good for
war driving.
Contact me sooner rather than later if you're interested in any of these.
Thanks,
--
Michael Weinberg
Volunteer
Personal Telco Project, Inc.
A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit
Matt G.
<mic...@personaltelco.net> wrote:
> Tomorrow, I plan to take my node
> (http://www.personaltelco.net/NodePineStreet) offline. I'm moving to
> California next month, and I don't plan to take the hardware with me.
I've resurrected NodePineStreet. It is no longer anywhere near Pine
St., but I guess I will leave the name as-is. It's now physically
located at the same location as NodeMatt (intersection of Johnson &
21st in NW).
Problem is: I don't know anything about this hardware (Lucent
RG-1000). Is it doing NAT or just bridging? Is it serving DHCP? Is
it exposing my personal network somehow? In general...how do I
configure it? Is there a web admin page? Obviously I'm doing a fair
share of googling and reading, but if anybody has suggestions, I'd
definitely like to hear them.
thanks!
-Matt
Russell Senior
Matt> I've resurrected NodePineStreet. It is no longer anywhere near
Matt> Pine St., but I guess I will leave the name as-is. It's now
Matt> physically located at the same location as NodeMatt
Matt> (intersection of Johnson & 21st in NW).
Matt> Problem is: I don't know anything about this hardware (Lucent
Matt> RG-1000). Is it doing NAT or just bridging? Is it serving
Matt> DHCP? Is it exposing my personal network somehow? In
Matt> general...how do I configure it? Is there a web admin page?
Matt> Obviously I'm doing a fair share of googling and reading, but if
Matt> anybody has suggestions, I'd definitely like to hear them.
Hopefully Michael will pipe up here and correct me, but I recall that
he had a hard time finding any information on resetting the thing. I
remember helping look, and not finding anything. Michael?
We recently got a couple used 90-degree sector antennas donated (thank
you InvictusNetworks!) that might be useful there. One (or more) of
those might be a good idea there, probably better than an omni for the
side of an apartment building. Also, we have a few of the low-powered
Ubiquiti Bullets that we could connect to them. The upside being that
we'd be able to route around the problems configuring the RG-1000.
--
Russell Senior, President
rus...@personaltelco.net
Gary
Rick Lindahl
Having sold thousands of the RG-1000's and given away a few too, I have the
original Lucent owner's manual and to answer some of your questions; it does
do NAT, DHCP but only WEP 64bit as it originally was sold. Security today is
an issue but other than that, it's a pretty good 802.11b access point. They
even have a built in 56k modem. For a couple of years, I had this as my
primary dial-up modem and access point.
If anyone needs the manual, let me know by direct email and I can send it
to you but I'll warn you its 12.7mb.
Good luck
Rick Lindahl
Invictus Networks, LLC - 503-635-2562, F503-635-9207
www.invictusnetworks.com - www.invictuswireless.com
thanks!
-Matt
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Rick Lindahl
The Lucent RG-1000 is older than the AP1000 and was designed as a
residential gateway where the original WaveLAN AP was the Enterprise AP
which turned into the Avaya and later Proxim AP-1000, then AP-2000,
AP-4000...very confusing.
Rick Lindahl
Invictus Networks, LLC - 503-635-2562, F503-635-9207
www.invictusnetworks.com - www.invictuswireless.com
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From: ptp-g...@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptp-g...@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Gary
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 6:17 PM
To: ptp-g...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [ptp-general] Node Pine Street Goes Offline Monday, August
16th.
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Rick Lindahl
I just opened another quick user guide for the RG-1000 and here is a copy
of paste of the original instructions for the 2 reset/reload buttons on the
back:
Residential Gateway-I - Getting Started Guide 4-5
Using your Residential Gateway-I - Residential Gateway-I Buttons
Reset button
This button allows you to recover from a situation where for some reason the
Residential Gateway-I is in a deadlock situation and has the same effect as
disconnecting the Residential Gateway-I from the power supply source.
After the reset, the Residential Gateway-I will default to the last known
configuration profile.
! CAUTION: Pressing the reset button will disable all network communications
for a few minutes.
Reload button Use this button only in special situations when you are no
longer able to connect to your Residential Gateway-I, for example when you
have forgotten the Residential Gateway-I password or Encryption Key. This
button will disable the encryption key and the password. It also resets the
DHCP settings of the device, allowing you to access the Residential
Gateway-I again.
! CAUTION: Pressing the Reload button changes the Residential Gateway-I
settings. To prevent irreversible changes, carefully follow the instructions
for the reload procedure.
I also have a copy of the old Lucent/Orinoco Client Manager which was used
for locating and managing the original AP's.
Good luck,
Rick Lindahl
Invictus Networks, LLC - 503-635-2562, F503-635-9207
www.invictusnetworks.com - www.invictuswireless.com - online store
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From: ptp-g...@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptp-g...@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Russell Senior
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 4:20 PM
To: ptp-g...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [ptp-general] Node Pine Street Goes Offline Monday, August
16th.
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Matt G.
Thanks for the info! I like Russell's suggestion (90-deg antennas)
because I'm located exactly on the corner of the building. They would
be perfect for covering what I want to cover.
One thing I don't like about the Lucent AP is that it does not seem to
provide the nice munin graphs that the AP's running OpenWRT seem to.
(Correct me if I'm wrong on that).
Russell, what do you think? Can I buy or borrow the antennas & radio
you mentioned?
thanks,
-Matt
Russell Senior
Matt> Rick, Russell, etc., Thanks for the info! I like Russell's
Matt> suggestion (90-deg antennas) because I'm located exactly on the
Matt> corner of the building. They would be perfect for covering what
Matt> I want to cover.
Matt> One thing I don't like about the Lucent AP is that it does not
Matt> seem to provide the nice munin graphs that the AP's running
Matt> OpenWRT seem to. (Correct me if I'm wrong on that).
It might just be a case of setting them up. Not sure if the Lucent AP
does SNMP or not. The Bullets do SNMP, though I think Jason
discovered that tinysnmpd that it has seems to only do version 1.
Anyway, it's sufficient.
Matt> Russell, what do you think? Can I buy or borrow the antennas &
Matt> radio you mentioned?
Although various people have been promised the radios for their roof
projects, they haven't actually built their rooftop setup yet, so my
sense is "first come, first serve". Also, we could always buy more
Bullets. The antennas, I am happy to let you use during the life of
your PTP node, a la the WGT634U. If you want to buy us some more
bullets, or just donate some money to PTP, that would be fine too,
though right now I think we have sufficient cash-on-hand for current
needs.
I think if we bought new, and they were in stock, we'd probably opt
for the Bullet M2HP for future-proofness, which a a bit more expensive
than the lower-powered original Bullet devices (~$80 vs ~$50).
Michael Weinberg
>>>>>> "Matt" == Matt G <mattis...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Matt> I've resurrected NodePineStreet. It is no longer anywhere near
> Matt> Pine St., but I guess I will leave the name as-is. It's now
> Matt> physically located at the same location as NodeMatt
> Matt> (intersection of Johnson & 21st in NW).
>
> Matt> Problem is: I don't know anything about this hardware (Lucent
> Matt> RG-1000). Is it doing NAT or just bridging? Is it serving
> Matt> DHCP? Is it exposing my personal network somehow? In
> Matt> general...how do I configure it? Is there a web admin page?
> Matt> Obviously I'm doing a fair share of googling and reading, but if
> Matt> anybody has suggestions, I'd definitely like to hear them.
>
> Hopefully Michael will pipe up here and correct me, but I recall that
> he had a hard time finding any information on resetting the thing. I
> remember helping look, and not finding anything. Michael?
It's definitely resettable (I've done it long ago) but the procedure
is a little opaque. There are instructions for both the RG-1000 and
the AP-500 floating about, and they are slightly different.
Even though I would expect the hardware to determine the reset
procedure, rather than the firmware, I seem to recall that it was the
AP-500 procedure that worked for me, but it's a fairly hazy
recollection.
My main barrier to resetting it later was that the radio was installed
on the roof, and it was working okay so I didn't mess with it.
There is a reset button inside the unit, I'd first try holding that
down while powering it on. That may only kick it into the reset mode,
at which point you need the software to write the new firmware onto
the device.
The RG-1000 was way hackable, and there were many posts about hacking
it in the early CWN days. Hardware wise, it is the same as the first
generation apple airports and the aforementioned AP-500, so info about
those units applies to it as well.
Michael
Michael Weinberg
The firmware is the AP-500 firmware, which runs on many early Lucent
based APs without issue and provides a host of advanced (at the time)
features.
There is a configuration utility, the name of which I can't
immediately recall, no web interface. The open source config tool
Freebase was rumored to work as well. Search for Orinoco RG-1000 and
AP-500 firmware an you should find some CWN list archives with reset
instructions and the like.
Michael
Michael Weinberg
<rus...@personaltelco.net> wrote:
>>>>>> "Matt" == Matt G <mattis...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Matt> Rick, Russell, etc., Thanks for the info! I like Russell's
> Matt> suggestion (90-deg antennas) because I'm located exactly on the
> Matt> corner of the building. They would be perfect for covering what
> Matt> I want to cover.
>
> Matt> One thing I don't like about the Lucent AP is that it does not
> Matt> seem to provide the nice munin graphs that the AP's running
> Matt> OpenWRT seem to. (Correct me if I'm wrong on that).
>
> It might just be a case of setting them up. Not sure if the Lucent AP
> does SNMP or not. The Bullets do SNMP, though I think Jason
> discovered that tinysnmpd that it has seems to only do version 1.
> Anyway, it's sufficient.
The RG-1000 does SNMP just fine, at least with the AP-500 firmware.
For a while I had graphs on our old cacti server that showed network
and CPU usage, possibly some other things. I don't think I redid the
graphs after we replaced the server that was running cacti.
I used a Proxim AP-4000 cacti template, and about half its features
worked with the RG-1000 you have.
Gary
> There is a configuration utility, the name of which I can't
> immediately recall, no web interface.
You can download a win32 app from Proxim's site. PoE would allow easy remote reset if it's capable...