Networking setup for easy SSH into Jetson

[Jquinny]

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We need the ability to access the jetson remotely through our laptops. It is a pain to have to go to the clubs room and plug in a keyboard, mouse, and monitor into the jetson to do development on it, not to mention we are limited by the number of USB ports available. We have to be able to ssh into the vehicle for doing any testing while driving it anyways.

There is also a slight issue with the ethernet adapter on the jetson. The operating system doesn't recognize eth0, so we have to use a usb-to-ethernet dongle in order for ethernet to work. This is a major inconvenience cause it takes away one of the available usb ports.

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We need a few things:

• ethernet working on jetson without having to use usb-ethernet dongle
• ability to connect to the car via ssh from anywhere, even off campus
• ability to create a local area network using ethernet alone so we can have a backup for sshing into the jetson from within the clubs room (I don't want to have to attach the keyboard and whatnot every time)
• ability to create a wireless local area network where we can ssh into the car without needing to be wired to it. We don't necessarily need to download anything from the internet so we can have this without an internet connection I think

Being able to connect to the jetson when it is in different places would be nice as well. I'd like to be able to connect to it remotely whether it is in the clubs room or in the breezeway (although the dense concrete might render that impossible). I would really like to be able to drive the rc car remotely in the etlc parking garage, as outside testing might be tough in the winter. This means the wireless access point must work down there.

I would like to not rely on any other clubs to have this happen, so we need to get this all set up ourselves.

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Right now we are mooching off of ARVP like crazy, using their ethernet switch, their in-person and remote servers, and their wireless access point to have remote access to our jetson. This requires us to have SSH keys set up on their server and to do a bunch of weird stuff with it. The process is convoluted to say the least, and not scalable or sustainable for new members to use. Only I have access to remotely access the jetson right now.

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[Jquinny]

Just a quick update:

• can now remotely ssh into the jetson from anywhere by going through a digital ocean cloud droplet as a reverse proxy. The jetson just needs to have an internet connection for this to work.
  • new members will need to generate ssh keys and I will need to put them on the digital ocean account and the jetson
• ethernet switch is (hopefully) all good to go now, so if members want fast ssh into the jetson they can plug an ethernet cable into their laptop and connect it to the switch. They just need to statically set the IP details for the ethernet interface

all that is left is getting a wireless access point (either test first with ARVP's or just buy one) set up in the clubs room so we can locally ssh into the car without internet and without ethernet cables.