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On Saturday (7/8/10), Nekron, Shadey and myself went up to Hillcrest to see if we could get a trailer mounted mast connected to the network. It was a successful day! Nekron has written a blog with more details on it here http://www.whatsmoke.com/wordpress/?p=190

Betsuin Air-Stream WAN services can now be found at 10.122.128.66
Enjoy!

The unit is on the roof and pinging Air-Stream-Skye:

[admin@433AH] > ping 10.122.128.1
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=12 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=11 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=11 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=12 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=55 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=11 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=11 ms
10.122.128.1 64 byte ping: ttl=64 time=11 ms
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 11/16.7/55 ms
[admin@433AH] >


At last upgrading my node to an RB422AH with an R52Hn radio - not on the roof yet but at least in it's box.

I figured i would finally start on a blog, considering how many ladders, roofs, chimneys ive been up in the last few months would be easier to keep track of their progress.

A little while back i got some help from Nekron, machspeed2200 and pazza we constructed what is now AS_Ottoway connected to Gould creek. We upgraded my gear from a Ubiquiti Bullet2HP to a RouterBoard setup. normal 50mm galv pole 6m high, placed ontop of my chimney.

now running at the site:
* Mikrotik RouterBoard 433AH
* 2 x Mikrotik R52Hn
* 24db 2.4ghz Grid
* Superpass 8db Omni

pics of the setup:

Finished Setup

After a heap of work out at Woolsheds on Saturday and Sunday, I was able to add the necessary hardware to my mast to get a basic connection to the network. It's still has a heap of configuring and aligning still to go, but at least I'm on! :D

For a close up of the mast mount point, see the Stage 1 blog.

Playing around with nagios configuration again and have mapped the greatest number of pingable IPs on Air-Stream to date:

route -n | awk '{print($1" " $3)}' | awk '!a[$0]++' | awk '{print("ipcalc "$1"/"$2)}' | sh | awk '{if ($1 == "Network:") print($2)}' | awk '{print("nmap -sP -n "$0)}' | sh | awk 'BEGIN {a=0} {if ($6 == "up.") a++} END {print(a)}'

a = 439

I can successfully tcptraceroute to 339 via scripts - have yet to implement "ping -R" which seems to work when tcptraceroute/traceroute fails. Of course "ping -R" won't reach right across the Air-Stream network due to limited hop buffering... hmm

Anyways for now nagios is mapping 339 Air-Stream IPs!

Hit betsuin.skye.wan/nagios/ if you are on Air-Stream
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Work on upgrading the Gawler South node began today with an upgrade of the mast.

Off the back of the meeting last night where we were talking about the power output of cards and
antenna gains. I'd thought I'd post how I remember the whacky world of dB gains.

Rule of Thumb: For power gain, every decade of dB adds a zero to the "10".

Today Microtechno, Nekron, and myself spent the afternoon at Microtechno's planned node out at Woolsheds.

I took out my binoculars to have a good visual look around, and was surprised at how good the site is. Roseworthy, the hills of Gawler East and Gawler South, Elizabeth, Para Hills and even the eastern most suburbs were visible! Although everything south of Elizabeth seemed to be too far for a link.