AREDN

"Amateur Radio Emergency Digital Network" or some such. They pronounce this "ARRR DIN" like a pirate. I want to call it "ARR-AH-DIN". Too bad for me.

Main page is at https://arednmesh.org/

The nearest neighbor for me is the Willamette Valley Mesh Network.

2024-12-07

• Downloaded the x86 version from https://downloads.arednmesh.org/afs/www/ (type "x86" in Model)
• Converted the img file to a vdi using VboxManage. Takes about a second.

VBoxManage convertfromraw --format VDI aredn-3.24.10.0-x86-64-generic-ext4-combined.img aredn-3.24.10.0-x86-64-generic-ext4-combined.vdi
Converting from raw image file="aredn-3.24.10.0-x86-64-generic-ext4-combined.img" to file="aredn-3.24.10.0-x86-64-generic-ext4-combined.vdi"...
Creating dynamic image with size 126353408 bytes (121MB)...

• Create in a vbox machine (128MB RAM, 2 CPUs), remove the IDE controller, and add a second network adapter and set it to Bridged mode
• Launch the machine.
• It shows a hostname of NOCALL, it is possible to set a hostname using "W6GKD-astoria", like this, but this is the wrong thing. Instead run "/usr/local/bin/firstuse-setup W6GKD-astoria" and that will set the hostname and do other as-yet unspecified stuff. I chose the name based on their rules which say make the callsign all caps.

uci set system.@system[0].hostname='W6GKD-astoria'
uci commit system
/etc/init.d/system reload

• Reboot. This gets me some IP addresses in /etc/hosts. Funky ones.
• In the console, entered commands to set br-lan to DHCP and rebooted. That got me a usable IP address on my lan.
• Connected with password "hsmm" using ssh -p 2222 [email protected]

• Rebooted. Now there are services on port 80 and 8080 but not reachable (?).

Build your own

Source code is in github https://github.com/aredn/aredn

I installed docker on Murre for this.