Node name: NodeLabarre
Address: 4100 SE Milwaukie Ave Portland, OR 97030
Live Date: February 27, 2003
Sponsor: Labarre Machine Works
Contact: RussellSenior <russell@personaltelco.net>
Equipment Donated (all parts financed by Labarre Machine Works)
- Soekris 4511 w/ 128MB Compact Flash ($216 + $50)
- Engenius 200mw PCMCIA Radio ($95)
- Maxrad 8dbi Omni-directional Antenna ($55)
MMCX->Ntype Pigtail ($18)
- 20ft LMR-400 Cable ($16)
- Homebrew POE Injector (~$15)
- Total of ~$465
- Soekris 4826
- NEMA enclosure
- 5-foot mast
- 2x CM9 Atheros a/b/g radios
- 2x N/male-N/male LMR195 jumper cables
- 2x 9-dBi 120-degree sector antennas
- 2x wall-bracket standoffs for antenna separation
- Soekris PoE injector
- 100-foot run of outdoor cat5
Software Installed
- Metrix Pyramid 1.0b5
Network Topology
- hostname: metal
- eth0 IP addr: 10.251.7.200/24
- gateway: 10.251.7.254
- DHCP Pool: 10.11.36.20 - 10.11.36.254
- Upstream Nameserver: 10.251.7.250 (see /ro/etc/resolv/static)
- Outside IP: 65.243.175.226
- bridged: eth1 wlan0
- br0 IP addr: 10.11.36.1/24
- interface: wlan0
- SSID: www.personaltelco.net
- Channel: 6
- BSSID: 00:02:6f:01:76:39
- hostname: shavings
- bridged: eth0, ath0, ath1
- br0 IP addr: 10.11.36.2/24
- interface: ath0
- SSID: www.personaltelco.net
- Channel: 1
- BSSID: 00:0B:6B:09:51:29
- interface: ath1
- SSID: www.personaltelco.net
- Channel: 11
- BSSID: 00:0B:6B:09:51:50
Installers / Organizers
- Originally:
- Refurb:
Maintenance and System Log
2008-09-03: Got a call this afternoon indicating a report of an outage. I went by later to check and it appears that the issue is a bad end on the cable from the switch up into the storage area. If I manipulate the cable, the link light occasionally goes on and then immediately off again. If the other end was the problem, I don't think that would happen. I let Gary know about my diagnosis and said that Dennis could take care of it tomorrow. --RussellSenior
2008-04-18: Visited today to check on a long outage. I had email'd but not heard a reply. Dennis said today he'd received my email, but his reply had bounced and he hadn't gotten around to trying again. I power-cycled and it came back up. I won't wait so long next time. --RussellSenior
2007-12-28: Installed a second soekris device outdoors near the front of the building, with coverage up and down Milwaukie Avenue. --RussellSenior
2007-07-20: Have recently reconfigured this node with Metrix Pyramid 1.0b5 and wifidog. Business owner also interested in adding an additional rooftop device. --RussellSenior
2006-10-13: Responded to a message forwarded to ops@lists.personaltelco.net (tardily) by DonPark. Node has been non-functional for a couple months. Internal network had been renumbered during a VOIP installation, breaking the static IP on the soekris. I got a serial console on the device, reset the root password, and set about patching things up. One tricky bit, /etc/resolv.conf is a symbolic link into /var, which gets unpacked from /etc/var.tgz during bootup, so to fix up /etc/resolv.conf I unpacked the tarball, modified var/local/etc/resolv.conf and tar'd it back up again. Did a final reboot-and-test and it was working when I left.
Notes
- The soekris 4511 is in an indoor case, on the floor of a storage area next to a ventilation duct. The pigtail comes out the back of the case, connects to LMR400 that takes the signal into the ventilation duct and up to the roof.
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