There was my link to Skye running pretty well (trees in the way) when I decided my grid parabola seemed a few degrees off so of course I swivelled it slightly, long story short my connectivity is now much worse!! Subsequent attempts to get it back have been less than successful, well I can pass packets if you don't mind >40% packet loss - ouch! I'll be dragging the laptop up on the roof this arvo, hopefully I can get it back to the sweet spot ...
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Air-Stream-betsuin Open!
Have finally sorted routing issues and Air-Stream-betsuin is now open for passing packets!!
I have my R100 on the roof with a biquad homebrew antenna (vertical) aimed at about azmith 280, my location is just near the round-about at the top of The Parade in Magill. If you would like to connect then please email me and after membership verification I will be more than pleased to pass you the WEP key and IP number, going through the committee would probably be the best option ...
The biquad is there for now however when time/$/family allow I'll get up on the roof and replace it with an onmi so as to maximize potential clients.
If anyone stumbles Air-Stream-betsuin then I would be most curious to hear about it! Leave a note here please!!
WARSOW
Have compiled War§ow4.2 on my G3 wifi box and am running a dedicated War§ow server at betsuin.skye.wan (10.122.128.7)
Not all smooth sailing as I did want to run a bot or two however due to what appears to be an big/little endian issue can not get bots to spawn - this is a non-fatal issue and the server runs up just fine sans-bots. Will look at solutions as time allows.
War§ow4.2 can be downloaded from the internet at http://www.warsow.net/?page=download or from my ftp at ftp://betsuin.skye.wan
ENJOY!
Nagios (Mostly) Back Up
Have dug up backuped files and reinstalled the latest and greatest Nagios v3.0.1.
A minor issue in that my custom node icon is not being displayed .. still scratching the head on that one.
The localhost.cnf file has changed in format from the previous 2.x version which I was running and my old cnf file caused an error on nagios 3.0.1 startup, a bit of comparision and the new cnf format gleened .. (-:
Now have to chase up the new Air-Stream APs and nodes as I unfortunately lost that info with the hd crash, guess an rsync script running off of cron needs to be set up - all those ~/etc/ files can be easy to overlook when backing up!
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Betsuin Down
Oops, looks like a hard drive failure on my G3 wifi router ... )-:
Betsuin might be down for a little bit ..
Skye Return
After about a week of Air-Stream being down I jumped on the roof and swung my grid-parab around towards Skye - till two nuts on the u-bolts for the mast strap tore-out their threads >.< Oh well, in the meantime my MKII-StumblingWand has connected however the wind or a bird seems to have knocked it a bit out of alignment and whilst my Minitar can see it a packet can not be passed. Initial flood pinging was encouraging ...
G3:~# ping -f -s 1400 skye
PING skye (10.122.128.1) 1400(1428) bytes of data.
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--- skye ping statistics ---
276 packets transmitted, 226 received, +6 duplicates, 18% packet loss, time 3677ms
Stumbling Wand
Had a bit of fun today ...
but in my haste to solder the thing together neglected to slide the reflector I had prepared on ... I'll have to retro-fit one now - /-:
half inch copper pipe with LMR-400 down the centre, 2mm 925-silver quad element. cut solder was first placed into joints and then a micro-torch used for heating. Solder wet nicely.
Flood pinging the R100 on the roof ran fine on channels 1 then 11 ...
omni:~# ping -f -s 1400 192.168.1.7
PING 192.168.1.7 (192.168.1.7) 1400(1428) bytes of data.
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--- 192.168.1.7 ping statistics ---
4765 packets transmitted, 4764 received, 0% packet loss, time 35992ms
Sayonara APANA
Just when I thought all was wonderful and the wifi gods were smiling when office relocation rears its unexpected head - yikes!
Good news is Air-Stream-Skye stumbled easily with my laptop from the roof tonight with a simple quad antenna and with a realignment of my ex-FoxTel dish have (finally) stumbled Air-Stream-Skye with my R100. Fingers crossed the trees don't play too much havoc.
Nagios Exteded Host Conf
If you would like to add your AP or node to the Nagios network mapping engine I have running then please visit http://betsuin.apana.wan/adel_nagios_map/adel_nagios_map.html - the page will generate a simple snippet of configuration which I can copy/paste, you will need to email me your ip - (guess I'd better code up an engine to do the whole thing, this'll do for the meantime.)
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Nagios Map Overlay
Have made a bit of progress along the nagios learning curve and now have a nice network map overlayed on a street map of Adelaide.
Access point and node placement is not so fine as to actually gleen physical location. Nagios polls each host every 5 minutes such that maps are semi-real time. I will slowly expand the host config as time allows. The map colours are being skewed when viewed at full zoom out and I have yet to suss out what is going on - colours are correct when zoomed in, this is a little frustrating and google has yet to work its wonders. Anyway here is a snippet from my browser...
