New Pyramid release

[JohnC]

I updated a few things in Pyramid this weekend:

Upgraded Madwifi-ng to version 9.4
Added support for the Sierra Wireless 875 pcmcia card
upgraded olsrd to version 0.5.6-rc7
Fixed a few bugs that were in the svn but not loaded into a image

[JohnC]

The New Image is uploaded to http://dl.metrix.net/support/dist/

[Alan]

Hi,

My name is Alan, and i am verry interested in your Pyramid distro.
I have 5 Nodes (laptops) with Pyramid, so i have tested the new
version.
I have found one issu about the OLSR
I can not communicte with te other nodes that have the old version of
OLSR.
I have modifite the olsr config file, but nothing happend and no
communication.

Have found that the RRD graph is not propely running on PC based
nodes.
When i add"create-update-rrds.php" and create_graphs.php in /etc/
crontab
I get the graphs on the Statistics page ,but except for signal/noise
info.

Is it passible to add DNS service to the distro and add the RALINK
drivers?

Regards,
Alan






On Oct 27, 11:03 pm, JohnC <j...@techie.com> wrote:
> The New Image is uploaded tohttp://dl.metrix.net/support/dist/

[mattw]

On Nov 8, 1:22 am, Alan <alanjans...@casema.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Alan, and i am verry interested in your Pyramid distro.
> I have 5 Nodes (laptops) with Pyramid, so i have tested the new
> version.
> I have found one issu about the OLSR
> I can not communicte with te other nodes that have the old version of
> OLSR.
> I have modifite the olsr config file, but nothing happend and no
> communication.
>

Which versions of OLSR are you running on old nodes? could you verify
that you are running the 0.5.6-r7 version of olsr on the 'new' nodes?

The 'doesn't talk with old stuff' bug was supposed to be fixed in
0.5.6, and i know we shipped 0.5.5 (which introduced it) on some
nodes.

> Have found that the RRD graph is not propely running on PC based
> nodes.
> When i add"create-update-rrds.php" and create_graphs.php in  /etc/
> crontab
> I get the graphs on the Statistics page ,but except  for signal/noise
> info.
>
> Is it passible to add DNS service to the distro and add the RALINK
> drivers?
>

Are you talking full blown DNS like bind? or are you interested in
adding hosts to a small mesh? What is it that dnsmasq isn't
providing youw ith?

The graphs are not using any generic abstraction, so it makes sense
they wouldn't work with ralink.

[JohnC]

There is a known working olsrd.conf in the files section for the
latest build of pyramid

[Alan]

>Which versions of OLSR are you running on old nodes? could you verify
>that you are running the 0.5.6-r7 version of olsr on the 'new' nodes?

>The 'doesn't talk with old stuff' bug was supposed to be fixed in
>0.5.6, and i know we shipped 0.5.5 (which introduced it) on some
>nodes.

I use the pyramid-1.0b5.image on all the nodes.
I don't have verify the olsr version on the newNodes yet so in the
next few days i be able to test the
new image on my test node.

>Are you talking full blown DNS like bind? or are you interested in
>adding hosts to a small mesh?
> What is it that dnsmasq isn't
>providing youw ith?

Yes, i like to resolv the nodes by name and want to add some
servernames into the mesh cloude.
is bind an option or can i add it in to a text file.

>The graphs are not using any generic abstraction, so it makes sense
>they wouldn't work with ralink.

Ok, thats no problem.
Can you post a image with dns and a page with a history of DHCP leases
and modify the RRD script so that the history of the graphs are not
deleted after reboot?

[mattw]

On Nov 10, 4:19 am, Alan <alanjans...@casema.nl> wrote:
> >Which versions of OLSR are you running on old nodes?  could you verify
> >that you are running the 0.5.6-r7 version of olsr on the 'new' nodes?
> >The 'doesn't talk with old stuff' bug was supposed to be fixed in
> >0.5.6, and i know we shipped 0.5.5 (which introduced it) on some
> >nodes.
>
> I use the pyramid-1.0b5.image on all the nodes.
> I don't have verify the olsr version on the newNodes yet so in the
> next few days i be able to test the
> new image on my test node.
>

Use pyramid-1.0b6.img

> >Are you talking full blown DNS like bind?  or are you interested
in
> >adding hosts to a small mesh?
> > What is it that dnsmasq isn't
> >providing youw ith?
>
> Yes, i like to resolv the nodes by name and want to add some
> servernames into the mesh cloude.
> is bind an option or can i add it in to a text file.
>

If you want to resolve nodes by name, the simplest way is to put names
into /etc/hosts
dnsmasq will pick these up and they will resolve.

If you have a TLD, you can use something like the SeattleWireless
dnsmasq setup.
http://seattlewireless.net/moin.cgi/DnsMasqSetup

For this example to work, the top level dns (usually a box running
bind) forwards requests for nodename.nodeone.swn to nodeone.swn which
looks first in it's /etc/hosts file, then in its dhcp cache.

fairly simple and seems magic.

If you want an example of the tld, I can send that as well.

> >The graphs are not using any generic abstraction, so it makes sense
> >they wouldn't work with ralink.
>
> Ok, thats no problem.
> Can you post a image with dns and a page with a history of DHCP leases
> and modify the RRD script so that the history of the graphs are not
> deleted after reboot?

Graphs are deleted because they are put on the ramdisk rather than
writing constantly to the flash. you can fix the script to either
write to a different location, or copy the rrd over every x minutes.

[Alan]

> If you want to resolve nodes by name, the simplest way is to put names
> into /etc/hosts
> dnsmasq will pick these up and they will resolve.
>
> If you have a TLD, you can use something like the SeattleWireless

> dnsmasq setup.http://seattlewireless.net/moin.cgi/DnsMasqSetup

>
> For this example to work, the top level dns (usually a box running
> bind) forwards requests for nodename.nodeone.swn to nodeone.swn which
> looks first in it's /etc/hosts file, then in its dhcp cache.
>
> fairly simple and seems magic.
>
> If you want an example of the tld, I can send that as well.

yes, that works Thanks!

> Graphs are deleted because they are put on the ramdisk rather than
> writing constantly to the flash. you can fix the script to either
> write to a different location, or copy the rrd over every x minutes.

After reboot, all the mods in /rw/... seems to be gone
Can you tell what folder are not cleaned after reboot?
thanks.

On Nov 11, 2:41 am, mattw <ma...@seattlewireless.net> wrote:
> On Nov 10, 4:19 am, Alan <alanjans...@casema.nl> wrote:> >Which versions of OLSR are you running on old nodes? could you verify
> > >that you are running the 0.5.6-r7 version of olsr on the 'new' nodes?
> > >The 'doesn't talk with old stuff' bug was supposed to be fixed in
> > >0.5.6, and i know we shipped 0.5.5 (which introduced it) on some
> > >nodes.
>
> > I use the pyramid-1.0b5.image on all the nodes.
> > I don't have verify the olsr version on the newNodes yet so in the
> > next few days i be able to test the
> > new image on my test node.
>
> Use pyramid-1.0b6.img
>
> > >Are you talking full blown DNS like bind? or are you interested
> in> >adding hosts to a small mesh?
> > > What is it that dnsmasq isn't
> > >providing youw ith?
>
> > Yes, i like to resolv the nodes by name and want to add some
> > servernames into the mesh cloude.
> > is bind an option or can i add it in to a text file.
>
> If you want to resolve nodes by name, the simplest way is to put names
> into /etc/hosts
> dnsmasq will pick these up and they will resolve.
>
> If you have a TLD, you can use something like the SeattleWireless

> dnsmasq setup.http://seattlewireless.net/moin.cgi/DnsMasqSetup

[JohnC]

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