Meeting:2007/07/10

Meeting (to be) held on 2007/07/10 at 19:00 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Previous meeting: 4 July 2007 19:00:00 Next meeting: 17 July 2007 19:00:00

Minutes

• 1x vs. Splash screen - The Big Debate!
  • Splash screen first
  • If splashscreen work, add 1x

• SOWN[at]HOME Nodes
  • Cancel Buffalo nodes
  • Order 1 of each on atheros page (Sean Ford, L3 Zepler)

• User Signup
  • PHP authenticate with radius server
  • auth.sown.org.uk takes ecs wifi password and adds you to sown-radius
  • needs pear and other packages
  • Scripts are ready to go from Andrew Willmott

• RADIUS/Splashscreen authentication
  • Less run on node the better
  • Call back to central radius server from web interface

• Survey all Access point user configable settings, nice features to have:
  • Customise SSID
  • Traffic shaping (for capped adsl at home)
    • Record how much traffic has been used for quotas on servers
  • Backup configuration to server
  • Restore configuration and see what is being pulled off server
  • Bridging between private wireless and wired network an option
  • Care to be taken with code injection etc.

• Tunnelling
  • SSH tunnels (tun device forwarding -w localtunnel:remotetunnel?)
  • Need root at both ends
  • See readme.tun that comes with SSH (-w option)
  • Command

ip tun ?

• • Using OpenVPN for tunnels, a port for each tunnel
  • Each sown[at]home node is individually identified on core node

Next meeting 17th July - Demo Room L32, Paul to let people in.