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Unable to discover peer over 1 hop #6

Closed cowherdboy closed 8 years ago

cowherdboy commented 8 years ago

I have installed the mesh extender firmware on two MR3020 (A & B) units. I do not have the UHF module. I have changed the SSID of the AP on the B unit. I can SSH into the unit and ping the MESH IPs (adhoc0 interface). I then connected one handphone to unit A and a second handphone to unit B via the WiFi AP. The handphones are running Serval app ver. 0.93. When I go to Contacts > List Phone on the Mesh, I am unable to see the other phone. Can you let me know what could be the problem. I have no problem seeing the peer when both the phones are on the same AP, i.e. using only one unit of MR3020.

gardners commented 8 years ago

Hello,

Can you run:

servald id peers

from on the Mesh Extenders?

This will show if they can see each other.

Meanwhile, which commit of the Mesh Extender firmware are you running? The Mesh Extender firmware is still under heavy and active development, so you should aim to have the latest firmware changes on there.

Paul.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:59 PM, cowherdboy notifications@github.com wrote:

I have installed the mesh extender firmware on two MR3020 (A & B) units. I do not have the UHF module. I have changed the SSID of the AP on the B unit. I can SSH into the unit and ping the MESH IPs (adhoc0 interface). I then connected one handphone to unit A and a second handphone to unit B via the WiFi AP. The handphones are running Serval app ver. 0.93. When I go to Contacts > List Phone on the Mesh, I am unable to see the other phone. Can you let me know what could be the problem. I have no problem seeing the peer when both the phones are on the same AP, i.e. using only one unit of MR3020.

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cowherdboy commented 8 years ago

Hi Paul,

I followed the instructions at: http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:meshextender:prototyping_on_mr3020

The git clone was done on Tuesday, 24th May. How do I find out which version I am running? I ran servald but got "servald: not found". Please let me know how to proceed.

FYI, The ./flash-virgin-mr3020 command did not work for me as it kept loading the stock firmware. So I did the flashing from WebGUI.

gardners commented 8 years ago

Hello,

Sounds like servald is not being put on the memory stick for some reason. You do have a USB memory stick insterted, and have partitioned and populated it?

Paul.

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Hi Paul,

I followed the instructions at:

http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:meshextender:prototyping_on_mr3020

The git clone was done on Tuesday, 24th May. How do I find out which version I am running? I ran servald but got "servald: not found". Please let me know how to proceed.

FYI, The ./flash-virgin-mr3020 command did not work for me as it kept loading the stock firmware. So I did the flashing from WebGUI.

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gardners commented 8 years ago

If you can type:

git log | head -20 in the mesh-extender-builder directory you used, that will be helpful, so that I know exactly which commit you are working from.

Paul.

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:46 PM, cowherdboy notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Paul,

I followed the instructions at:

http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:meshextender:prototyping_on_mr3020

The git clone was done on Tuesday, 24th May. How do I find out which version I am running? I ran servald but got "servald: not found". Please let me know how to proceed.

FYI, The ./flash-virgin-mr3020 command did not work for me as it kept loading the stock firmware. So I did the flashing from WebGUI.

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cowherdboy commented 8 years ago

Yes, I have the USB memory stick partitioned and populated. Here is the filesystem on the MR3020:

root@Serval-MeshExtender-0:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 576 232 344 40% / /dev/root 2560 2560 0 100% /rom tmpfs 14608 96 14512 1% /tmp tmpfs 512 0 512 0% /dev /dev/mtdblock3 576 232 344 40% /overlay overlayfs:/overlay 576 232 344 40% / /dev/sda1 1046516 20 1046496 0% /dos /dev/sda2 1045804 177552 815824 18% /serval /dev/sda3 5701916 215488 5200504 4% /serval-var

Here is the git log output:

~/mesh-extender-builder$ git log | head -20 commit 33e6873350bdeab690eaa5c399c92476c2afcb08 Author: gardners paul@servalproject.org Date: Mon May 23 11:37:24 2016 +0930

read SID from keyring file to avoid problems with non-responsive servald.
remove timestamp check for lbard, since meshms sent by mesh extenders
will have crazy 1970 timestamps much of the time).

commit ead9aa3718a16e4c16798c702ea5d05b269be13e Author: gardners paul@servalproject.org Date: Mon May 23 11:21:17 2016 +0930

pull in updated mesh-extender binaries

commit 52c500780ab9306f76db86582cc3c590d5d28f71 Author: gardners paul@servalproject.org Date: Mon May 23 11:16:57 2016 +0930

pull in updated mesh-extender binaries
gardners commented 8 years ago

Is there a servald binary in the /serval partition on the memory stick?

Paul.

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Yes, I have the USB memory stick partitioned and populated. Here is the filesystem on the MR3020:

root@Serval-MeshExtender-0:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 576 232 344 40% / /dev/root 2560 2560 0 100% /rom tmpfs 14608 96 14512 1% /tmp tmpfs 512 0 512 0% /dev /dev/mtdblock3 576 232 344 40% /overlay overlayfs:/overlay 576 232 344 40% / /dev/sda1 1046516 20 1046496 0% /dos /dev/sda2 1045804 177552 815824 18% /serval /dev/sda3 5701916 215488 5200504 4% /serval-var

Here is the git log output:

~/mesh-extender-builder$ git log | head -20 commit 33e6873 https://github.com/servalproject/mesh-extender-builder/commit/33e6873350bdeab690eaa5c399c92476c2afcb08 Author: gardners paul@servalproject.org Date: Mon May 23 11:37:24 2016 +0930

read SID from keyring file to avoid problems with non-responsive servald. remove timestamp check for lbard, since meshms sent by mesh extenders will have crazy 1970 timestamps much of the time).

commit ead9aa3 https://github.com/servalproject/mesh-extender-builder/commit/ead9aa3718a16e4c16798c702ea5d05b269be13e Author: gardners paul@servalproject.org Date: Mon May 23 11:21:17 2016 +0930

pull in updated mesh-extender binaries

commit 52c5007 https://github.com/servalproject/mesh-extender-builder/commit/52c500780ab9306f76db86582cc3c590d5d28f71 Author: gardners paul@servalproject.org Date: Mon May 23 11:16:57 2016 +0930

pull in updated mesh-extender binaries

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cowherdboy commented 8 years ago

No. I don't see a servald binary.

root@Serval-MeshExtender-0:/serval# find . -name "serval*" ./www/software/source/files/serval-docs.tgz ./www/software/source/files/serval-dna.tgz ./www/software/android/servalmesh.apk

gardners commented 8 years ago

Ok, so the USB stick populating has not gone correctly for some reason.

Is there a servald binary in the servald directory in your mesh-extender-builder directory that you used to install from?

Paul.

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No. I don't see a servald binary.

root@Serval-MeshExtender-0:/serval# find . -name "serval*" ./www/software/source/files/serval-docs.tgz ./www/software/source/files/serval-dna.tgz ./www/software/android/servalmesh.apk

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cowherdboy commented 8 years ago

I can't find servald binary. How can I build servald?

~/mesh-extender-builder/servald$ ls -al total 540 drwxrwxr-x 2 4096 May 25 03:48 . drwxrwxr-x 12 4096 May 26 16:14 .. -rwxrwxr-x 1 52720 May 25 03:48 flash900 -rwxrwxr-x 1 304895 May 25 03:48 lbard -rw-rw-r-- 1 89220 May 25 03:48 rfd900-43-91.ihx -rw-rw-r-- 1 88488 May 25 03:48 rfd900-82-91.ihx -rwxrwxr-x 1 464 May 25 03:48 serval.conf

gardners commented 8 years ago

I've added the missing binary. To compile it yourself, you need to cross-compile it using an openwrt build environment. That process is documented somewhere, but I agree that we need to get the documentation better and all in one place. It would also be nice to have all of the cross-compilation scripts in the mesh-extender-build repository, so that you can just "make servald/servald", instead of having binary artifacts in the git repository, which even I know isn't a great idea.

Paul.

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I can't find servald binary. How can I build servald?

~/mesh-extender-builder/servald$ ls -al total 540 drwxrwxr-x 2 4096 May 25 03:48 . drwxrwxr-x 12 4096 May 26 16:14 .. -rwxrwxr-x 1 52720 May 25 03:48 flash900 -rwxrwxr-x 1 304895 May 25 03:48 lbard -rw-rw-r-- 1 89220 May 25 03:48 rfd900-43-91.ihx -rw-rw-r-- 1 88488 May 25 03:48 rfd900-82-91.ihx -rwxrwxr-x 1 464 May 25 03:48 serval.conf

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cowherdboy commented 8 years ago

Thanks Paul for your prompt support. It is working now.