[sudo-discuss] Project Meshnet

[Marc Juul]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Dan Krol <orblivion at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could you help clarify for me - from what you mentioned here, and from
> what I learned at the cryptoparty, it sounds like you guys have only a
> couple nodes up, but the meshmap shows tens of them around Oakland. Are
> those still active? Are they somehow unaffiliated?
>

A bug in the maps software we are using (nodeshot) is causing all nodes to
show up as active. It is annoying. The map is currently used to let people
add their locations if they want to adopt a node. I am sorry if the map has
mislead you into believing that we have many active nodes. I made a quick
fix to the nodeshot code so it displays correctly now.

We are currently hard at work on the firmware and associated software. We
want to deploy nodes as fast as possible, but we also want to ensure that
they'll stay up over time, and that we can update the software without
physical access if a bug appears. The two active nodes have already helped
us find problems that would have been very problematic for a larger mesh,
as they crashed after a few weeks of uptime and were not rebooted by the
hardware watchdog. It seems that the newest OpenWRT is not able to run
stably on the lower-memory routers. We have yet to find the problem with
the watchdog.

The current critical TODO items for the firmware before we deploy to the 31
nodes on the map are:

  Simplified router admin interface.
  Remote status and software update.
  Automated building of firmware.

We have people actively working on these but extra help will get us there
faster :)

-- 
Marc Juul
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