Re: [SLUG] Linux-based 802.11n routers for WDS
Try this netgear http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/WirelessNRoutersandGateways/WNR3500L.aspx Be careful to get the 'L' release, as i accidentally got the WNR3500 which cant run dd-wrt (etc). Has 5 ports gig (1 is wan) and Wireless-N. A great buy and good to see companies seeing open source as an opportunity for better products rather than some sort of weird group of pirate hippies. Dean On 3/21/2010, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com wrote: I'm looking to replace a WDS network, consisting of a Linksys WRT54GS and a Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato. The WRT54GS is also the network gateway, handling DHCP, DNS, firewalling and PPPoE for ADSL. Both routers have a number of devices connected to them, both wired and wirelessly. What I'm looking for is an alternative that can handle 802.11n and gigabit Ethernet. Unfortunately Tomato doesn't appear to support any 802.11n devices, but DD-WRT (which I used to use) handles quite a few. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should be purchasing and setting up? Thanks -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] March meeting: AGM + Programming: How can we do it better?
Date: Friday 26th of March Start Time: Arrive at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm sharp start Format: Erik de Castro Lopo on Programming: How can we do it better?, AGM, Pizza Dinner Where: Google Australia, Level 5, 48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont (opposite Star City) As this meeting contains the AGM, all previous memberships expire and you'll have to pay dues ($25, $15 concession) if you wish to remain financial (including if you wish to participate in the election). First up, we have Erik de Castro Lopo, speaking on the topic of Programming : How can we do it better? As developers, we hear a constant stream of complaints about how software (not necessarily our own) is buggy and crashes. In this presentation I plan to look at what we can do now and in the future to make software development more reliable, repeatable and scalable. This will be followed (after the break) by the 2010 AGM - see [1] and [2] for more details. Meeting Details SLUG is the very mis-named Sydney Linux User Group. We are a general Open Source interest group which runs our primary event on the last Friday of every month (except December). Meetings are open to the general public, and are free of charge. Our venue is Google, Level 5, 48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont. It's across the road from Star City Casino. You will need to sign-in to enter the venue. This can be performed when you arrive, but to help us organise adequate catering we ask that you do so online beforehand at [3]. If you are unsure, please sign up as a 'maybe'. This allows us to organise adequate meeting space and facilities. You do not need to create an account to indicate your attendance. Meeting Schedule We start at 18.30 but we ask that people arrive at least 15 minutes early so we an all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arrive before 18.00, as it may hinder business activities for our host! * 18.15: Open Doors * 18.30: Announcements, News, Introductions * 18.45: Programming: How can we do it better? * 19.30: Intermission * 19.45: AGM * 20.30: Dinner Hacker Space We have heaps of room available to us at Google. If the talks do not grab you, feel free to come along and hack away on your favourite project in the designated Hacker Space. Dinner We order in a selection of pizzas for dinner after the meeting. The cost is $10 per head, and we will be collecting money from the beginning of the meeting. If you have any particular dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian), let us know beforehand. Dinner is a great way to socialise and learn in a relaxed atmosphere :) For those who want to continue the conversation after dinner, some of us will be heading to a pub in the local area. [1] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/announce/2010/02/msg5.html [2] http://wiki.slug.org.au/2010agm [3] http://slug-march.eventbrite.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 50, Issue 18
Linux-based 802.11n routers for WDS; -Linksys 310n etc. series do this also take a look at buffalo and asus, running DD-WRT should do what you suggest. Keep in mind that Gigabit is not GIGABIT. Depending on hardware contraints you may not get the performance you are after. Same goes for the HW contraints of consumer routers with high load. What is your expected client per AP ratio? What apps / frequency will they be running? Are you talking GIGABIT just to uplink/tether the AP's. Good Luck! On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:00 PM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: Send slug mailing list submissions to slug@slug.org.au To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to slug-requ...@slug.org.au You can reach the person managing the list at slug-ow...@slug.org.au When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of slug digest... Today's Topics: 1. Linux-based 802.11n routers for WDS (Sridhar Dhanapalan) 2. Re: Linux-based 802.11n routers for WDS (Dean Hamstead) 3. March meeting: AGM + Programming: How can we do it better? (James Polley) -- Forwarded message -- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com To: slug slug@slug.org.au Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:08:01 +1100 Subject: [SLUG] Linux-based 802.11n routers for WDS I'm looking to replace a WDS network, consisting of a Linksys WRT54GS and a Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato. The WRT54GS is also the network gateway, handling DHCP, DNS, firewalling and PPPoE for ADSL. Both routers have a number of devices connected to them, both wired and wirelessly. What I'm looking for is an alternative that can handle 802.11n and gigabit Ethernet. Unfortunately Tomato doesn't appear to support any 802.11n devices, but DD-WRT (which I used to use) handles quite a few. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should be purchasing and setting up? Thanks -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- Forwarded message -- From: Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au To: Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com, slug slug@slug.org.au Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:14:45 -0800 Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux-based 802.11n routers for WDS Try this netgear http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/WirelessNRoutersandGateways/WNR3500L.aspx Be careful to get the 'L' release, as i accidentally got the WNR3500 which cant run dd-wrt (etc). Has 5 ports gig (1 is wan) and Wireless-N. A great buy and good to see companies seeing open source as an opportunity for better products rather than some sort of weird group of pirate hippies. Dean On 3/21/2010, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com wrote: I'm looking to replace a WDS network, consisting of a Linksys WRT54GS and a Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato. The WRT54GS is also the network gateway, handling DHCP, DNS, firewalling and PPPoE for ADSL. Both routers have a number of devices connected to them, both wired and wirelessly. What I'm looking for is an alternative that can handle 802.11n and gigabit Ethernet. Unfortunately Tomato doesn't appear to support any 802.11n devices, but DD-WRT (which I used to use) handles quite a few. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should be purchasing and setting up? Thanks -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Forwarded message -- From: James Polley ja...@polley.org To: activit...@slug.org.au, slug@slug.org.au Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:25:24 +1100 Subject: [SLUG] March meeting: AGM + Programming: How can we do it better? Date: Friday 26th of March Start Time: Arrive at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm sharp start Format: Erik de Castro Lopo on Programming: How can we do it better?, AGM, Pizza Dinner Where: Google Australia, Level 5, 48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont (opposite Star City) As this meeting contains the AGM, all previous memberships expire and you'll have to pay dues ($25, $15 concession) if you wish to remain financial (including if you wish to participate in the election). First up, we have Erik de Castro Lopo, speaking on the topic of Programming : How can we do it better? As developers, we hear a constant stream of complaints about how software (not necessarily our own) is buggy and crashes. In this presentation I plan to look at what we can do now and in the future to make software development more reliable, repeatable and scalable. This will be followed (after the break) by the 2010 AGM - see [1] and [2] for more details. Meeting Details SLUG is the very mis-named Sydney Linux User Group. We are a general Open Source interest group
[SLUG] IPv6 DDNS and DHCP3
Has anyone added scripts to dhcpd.conf to control DDNS records based on MAC address? It's such an obvious idea, that someone must have done it! [[[ Background for those who don't routinely use IPv6, DDNS and Bind. When a network interface comes up, it can autoconfigure itself with an IPv6 address based on its MAC address, combined with a default prefix that is broadcast from an IPv6 router somewhere else on the network. Typically, in an IPv4 system, the system will also request an IPv4 address using a protocol called DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). With the request, the system can pass a hostname, and it's fairly trivial to configure the DHCP server to insert this into the DNS server's tables, with an A record matching name to IPv4 address. When the lease expires, or is explicitly released, the A record is removed. I want also to add the record for the IPv6 address that would be auto-configured. It's fairly easy to write a script to do this, with appropriate checks and balances (e.g., use ping6 to make sure that the client actually uses IPv6). It *should* be possible to do it entirely inside the dhcpd.conf file for dhcp3. And I don't want to reinvent the wheel if there's already something out there. ]]] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Skype submitting SILK codec to IETF
From: Barrett-Bowen, Neil To: Glen Turner Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:47:47 + Subject: RE: SILK IP License Request Message-ID: 7e09d250a0d81f4bb9c5206d9ac6a156018c8c2...@dub-mexms-002.corp.ebay.com In-Reply-To: 1268956113.2084.30.ca...@ilion Glen, We have recently made some big change to the SILK program and have submitted the SILK source code to IETF. This means that you can freely download and use SILK for evaluation purposes by visiting https://developer.skype.com/silk. As stated on the web site, the use of the SILK codec for any other purpose than for your internal evaluation and testing requires an additional license to Skype IP. We are currently finalising the terms of this license and we will have these ready for review in due course. BR, Neil Barrett-Bowen Business Development IP Licensing Skype -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] IPv6 DDNS and DHCP3
On 22/03/10 13:08, Peter Chubb wrote: Has anyone added scripts to dhcpd.conf to control DDNS records based on MAC address? See ddns-hostname in dhcpd.conf(5). You can set it to an expression, see dhcp-eval(5). The vector hardware contains the MAC address. Note that you can log an expression, which is useful for debugging the expression. You just keep renewing the DHCP lease until the log looks good, then assign write the ddns-hostname clause. See this for the leading zero trick https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2009-January/007726.html and the remainder of that mailing list for fine info. In general though, I'd recommend against DHCPv6 outside of a residential ISP scenario (and even there the hosts will autoconf, it's the router which takes it's address from DHCPv6). Autoconf + stateles DHCPv6 seem to have much less difficulties. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Skype submitting SILK codec to IETF
Glen Turner wrote: As stated on the web site, the use of the SILK codec for any other purpose than for your internal evaluation and testing requires an additional license to Skype IP. Looks like open sores to me. Definitely not Open Source. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Skype submitting SILK codec to IETF
Erik de Castro Lopo produced the glyphs: ... Definitely not Open Source. They're obviously having an internal discussion. Let's wait until that finishes before jumping to conclusions. The IETF will force clarity regarding the patent license when Skype tries to move from Draft down the RFC standards track. Then we will see if Royalty Free terms are offered with their patent license. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
