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

• Your Item Here

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

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