Location: Jitsi
Date and Time: Wednesday, August 21, 2024, 6:30pm-9:00pm
Scribe: You
Roll Call: RussellSenior,JasonBergstrom,TedBrunner,CourtneyRosenthal,SteveTree
Agenda
- Pick location for next weekly
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Notes
- Node notes:
NodeBuffaloGap - Troy requested a check on their network health for fantasy football.
- Russell rebooted gateway and APs as they had been up for 6 months.
NodeAnnapurna - Ted has passed information on previous budget items for wiring to Ole to use in assembling the Umpqua grant request
- Netgear E8450 - bug in BL2 (v2.9.X, Ted's) first-stage boot loader.
- NAND flash issue in OpenWRT boot loader (if errors are found in factory partition, even if they would've been recoverable).
- Failure mode requires pulling apart case and doing a serial recovery
Link to refurb: https://www.amazon.com/Linksys-Networking-Wireless-Coverage-Parental/dp/B0998C9T97/?th=1
Why RussellSenior likes this: WIFI-6, ARM CPU, 2.5Gbps, stable OpenWRT support -- fairly modern, fairly cheap, fairly capable
Notes captured by TedBrunner:
- Netgear Linksys AX3200 Wi-Fi 6 Router (N8450) * NOR - robust against error but 100k write limit
- NAND - can ship with bad blocks, needs OS to
- E8450 shipped with bl2 bootloader with a bug in v2.2-v2.9
- boot can give up if it finds a block error
- fix by serial cable and write into regions
- need to boot first, laptop side tool
- get into uboot, and in a UBI volume (has robustness layer)
- then tftp bl2 blob and write to flash
- new bl2 handles ELCC recovery work
- refurb on Amazon ~$50
- can install OpenWRT from web interface
- ARM 64 multi core (not MIPS)
- early on worked with OpenWRT, Russell has good experiences with it
- fairly modern, cheap, capable
- other router CUDY uses MIPS
- Hardware donation - Bridgewave GE60 + mounting hardware, fiber interface
- base support hardware (but no base pad)
- 10/100 enet (PoE), GB fiber connector
Russell looking to offload for someone that could use (possibly NodeKailash to NodeAnnapurna)
- Operate as a bi-directional pair (blue/red), missing some parts
Next week's meeting is the monthly meeting at NodeLuckyLabNW