#AREDN Some software metrics:
Nodes seen on the network - 3028
Nodes that are Babel-capable ~ 2958
Nodes on prod release(s) - 3.25.5.0: 256 + 3.25.5.1: 709 = 965 total
Percentage of nodes on current prod release: 33% Not too shabby!
Nodes running the Babel-only nightly build: 60: --> 2%
802.11ah nodes (new - 900 MHz): 6
#aredn
It figures... After several months of testing, a bug in the Babel implementation surfaced - naturally after a production release. Somewhat randomly and rarely, after a reboot or upgrade, the Babel connection between two nodes will not operate correctly. Symptoms are lack of connectivity with Babel nodes, usually in one direction rather than both.
Consider updating to production release 3.25.5.1 (now available) which will resolve the issue.
Now that we have shipped 3.25.5.0, the nightly builds will be a little different. Before we had just a single nightly build, but for the foreseeable future there will be two:
• a nightly build, and
• a babel nightly build.
The traditional nightly build will continue to include bug fixes and contains both Babel and OLSR. It will be the base for future Release builds until OLSR is removed.
More info at arednmesh.org
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The nightly build is now 0418. It fixes the update for the one ham in the world running AREDN as a VM on a "VULTR" host 🙂 It's the release candidate now.
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Nightly build 20250415 has been designated the release candidate for the next production release.
In it the AREDN® team is introducing Babel as a replacement for the older OLSR routing technology.
Additionally this release adds PtP (point to point) and PtMP (point to multipoint) RF modes to complement our existing AdHoc mode. We’ve see notable throughput and latency improvements when using these modes, especially with 802.11ac devices.
The AREDN development team
@Linux @Flyingmana @arstechnica I don't think #MeshNetwork|s are illegal in the US per se? There is NYC @mesh or #AREDN for instance.
@early_riser @ProdigalFrog #AREDN was an epic failure in our city when the OMs found out that it required more than self deploying with a half-charged $30 2M HT.
#aredn When the OLSR routing protocol is dropped from AREDN sometime in the future, legacy tunnels will stop working, as they can't support the Babel protocol. Users have been advised to migrate from legacy tunnels to Wireguard tunnels for some time.
A recent change to the code enables legacy tunnels to be broken out from Wireguard tunnels in their JSON file. Of those nodes that have picked up this change, they report 17.5% legacy tunnels, 82.5% Wireguard tunnels. Not too shabby!
I'd like to have a few G-iNet GL-USB150 to play with. If anyone has one laying around in a junk drawer or something, please contact me.
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From Tim KN6PLV, the AREDN lead developer:
I want to encourage people to experiment with the current AREDN nightly build. It would be good to have more eyes on the Babel changes (better route filtering) in more diverse spots in the network. Thanks.
I have, somehow, joined an even nerdier Internet with #AREDN. I'm listening to a weather radio in NJ, watching someone's ADS-B plane tracker output from their SDR, and watching a weather station in Shrewsbury, Vermont all through a series of meshed Wifi points and WireGuard connections. It's not quite stable enough to work without the actual Internet underneath it, but has the capability to if needed.
We think today's nightly build has addressed the memory issues we’ve been seeing. The final bug looks to have been a change in the vm.min_free_kbytes setting. We’ve dropped this back down to 1M per core, and have seen many hours of stability in places we were lucky to get an hour from.
This nightly build is pretty much a "must have" if you're running supernode tunnels on an ac2, and "highly-recommended" if you're running tunnels on a hAP ac Lite
We think today's nightly build has addressed the memory issues we’ve been seeing. The final bug looks to have been a change in the vm.min_free_kbytes setting. We’ve dropped this back down to 1M per core, and have seen many hours of stability in places we were lucky to get an hour from.
This nightly build is pretty much a "must have" if you're running supernode tunnels on an ac2, and "highly-recommended" if you're running tunnels on a hAP ac Lite
#aredn - new to nightly build 20250218: PtP and PtMP modes! Read the help first - built-in help now, or online soon.
#AREDN nightly build 20250217 is now available. As announced, this build includes the Babel networking protocol, in addition to OLSR. Upgrading is the same procedure as before. If there are "Babel-enabled" nodes at each end of a link, that link will run Babel preferentially.
The only other thing that's changed in this build compared to the 3.25.2.0 production release is the addition of an icon that shows if a link is running the Babel protocol.
wew new #ArgoCD and #cloudflared tunnel for the #AREDN connected #RaspberryPi 5 🎉
still a lot more to do but this has been on my agenda for waaaaaay too long.
I managed to corrupt the #AREDN config file so bad the user interface wouldn’t load the #Wireguard section. I did a too-full reset but I need to put the firmware back on again now. Should be a quicker process now that the rest of my network is configured correctly for the VLANs it expects.
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