Hello,
Good to hear it is tough to work on in Linux and that am not the only person finding it difficult working on it.
@Ufo : Yes, it might be tough, but we learn from experience on working on such stuff after all. I have two routers but want to setup a bigger mesh bed with more nodes and would prefer not to spend more for now. And mainly I think working on Linux would provide me a better understanding and would allow me to experiment more on it. I have worked with Virtual machines before, though with minimal experimentation at that. And I will definitely check out LEDE. Thank you for the suggestion.
@Marek : Yes, I know it was a half baked question I presented, but wasn't sure how to put up my query more clearly. Now I will list out the steps I have followed till now and what the results are.
Links I followed primarily: [1] https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/qemu [2] https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/Emulation
So, the link [1] defines setting up QEMU. Again, I am working on Ubuntu 16.0, 64-bit.
As far as I could see, only the Commands in 'Booting from SD card image' was related. Have downloaded openwrt-realview-vmlinux.elf , openwrt-realview-sdcard.img and type in the command below :
qemu-system-arm -M realview-pbx-a9 -m 1024M -nographic \ -kernel openwrt-realview-vmlinux.elf \ -sd openwrt-realview-sdcard.img \ -append "console=ttyAMA0 verbose debug root=/dev/mmcblk0p1"
This command opened up a BusyBox which looks as follows :
BusyBox v1.24.2 () built-in shell (ash)
//Says OpenWrt below _______ ________ __ | | .-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_ | - | | _ | -__| || | | || _|| _| |_______| | __|____|__|__||________||__| |____| |__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M ----------------------------------------------------- DESIGNATED DRIVER (Bleeding Edge, 49928) ----------------------------------------------------- * 2 oz. Orange Juice Combine all juices in a * 2 oz. Pineapple Juice tall glass filled with * 2 oz. Grapefruit Juice ice, stir well. * 2 oz. Cranberry Juice ----------------------------------------------------- root@OpenWrt:/# [ 13.897119] smsc911x smsc911x.0 eth0: SMSC911x/921x identified at 0xf0b40000, IRQ: 60 [ 13.934741] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode [ 13.978166] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br-lan: link is not ready [ 15.762764] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state [ 15.764526] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state [ 15.802643] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): br-lan: link becomes ready [ 17.762480] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state root@OpenWrt:/#
There is no details on what to do once this opens up though. And I still need confirmation as to what this means. Is it that QEMU has loaded OpenWRT in my system like a virtual machine or is it a console to access OpenWRT functionalities, etc.
After this I made changes according to "openwrt virtualized using debian, qemu/kvm and a lex twitter system with intel atom d525 and chipset ich8m" section to 'Virtualization proper' too in case it was required, but the Virtualization didn't work.
This done, I moved to link [2], where it explains how to set up mesh testbed. It says"OpenWrt, kamikaze trunk version for x86 with minimal modifications" and so I have downloaded 'openwrt-x86-ext2.image' from Kamikaze. Changed the above code used to load QEMU as : qemu-system-arm -M realview-pbx-a9 -m 1024M -nographic \
-kernel openwrt-realview-vmlinux.elf \ -sd openwrt- \ -sd openwrt-x86-ext2.image \ -append "console=ttyAMA0 verbose debug root=/dev/mmcblk0p1"
But loading this hasn't been successful as doing this gives : ...<loading and stuff>... [ 1.304028] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 179:1. [ 1.317832] Freeing unused kernel memory: 196K (c0481000 - c04b2000) [ 1.328078] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance. [ 1.332338] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance.
Next, running the script written in 'OpenWrt' section doesn't work as it says : /tmp/logserver.sh: 3: /tmp/logserver.sh: cannot open /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/log: No such file /tmp/logserver.sh: 3: /tmp/logserver.sh: cannot open /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/log: No such file
Commenting the lines that open this file : while [ 1 ]; do nc -l -p 2050 < /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/log done
gives the error : RTNETLINK answers: File exists Cannot find device "br-lan" Cannot find device "br-lan" ./rc.local: 23: ./rc.local: cannot create /proc/net/batman-adv/interfaces: Directory nonexistent ./rc.local: 24: ./rc.local: cannot create /proc/net/batman-adv/interfaces: Directory nonexistent ./rc.local: 25: ./rc.local: cannot create /proc/net/batman-adv/log_level: Directory nonexistent /tmp/logserver.sh: 1: /tmp/logserver.sh: !/bin/sh: not found Cannot find device "bat0" Cannot find device "bat0"
Next, I have patched both 'vde2-2.3.2_colour.patch' and 'vde2-2.3.2-wirefilter-ethertype.patch'
The final step lists a script for running the scripts to start up all the qemu windows. This throw up a lot many errors. Below is the error it shows:
kaushik@kaushik-HP:~/QEMUopenwrt$ ./command.sh Must be run inside a screen session [sudo] password for kaushik: wirefilter(8722): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8724): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8726): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8728): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8730): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8732): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8734): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8736): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8738): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8740): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8742): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8744): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8746): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8748): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8750): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8567): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8575): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8583): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8591): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8599): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8607): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8615): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8623): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8631): Operation not permitted ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy RTNETLINK answers: File exists ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy RTNETLINK answers: File exists ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy RTNETLINK answers: File exists ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy RTNETLINK answers: File exists ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy RTNETLINK answers: File exists ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy . . .
This I run in a screen as it is mentioned in the guide. It creates many files and folders named num0 to num9, but doesn't proceed after that.
This and some more experimentation I have done with it. So, any help I can get would be most welcome
Thanks and Regards,
Kaushik NP LI | Tw | FB SAP Ambassador, General Secretary, Computer Society Team IEEE UVCE, 3rd Year Undergraduate Student, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, IN
On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Kaushik N P kaushik.np.in@ieee.org wrote:
Hello,
Good to hear it is tough to work on in Linux and that am not the only person finding it difficult working on it.
@Ufo : Yes, it might be tough, but we learn from experience on working on such stuff after all. I have two routers but want to setup a bigger mesh bed with more nodes and would prefer not to spend more for now. And mainly I think working on Linux would provide me a better understanding and would allow me to experiment more on it. I have worked with Virtual machines before, though with minimal experimentation at that. And I will definitely check out LEDE. Thank you for the suggestion.
@Marek : Yes, I know it was a half baked question I presented, but wasn't sure how to put up my query more clearly. Now I will list out the steps I have followed till now and what the results are.
Links I followed primarily: [1] https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/qemu [2] https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/Emulation
So, the link [1] defines setting up QEMU. Again, I am working on Ubuntu 16.0, 64-bit.
As far as I could see, only the Commands in 'Booting from SD card image' was related. Have downloaded openwrt-realview-vmlinux.elf , openwrt-realview-sdcard.img and type in the command below :
qemu-system-arm -M realview-pbx-a9 -m 1024M -nographic \ -kernel openwrt-realview-vmlinux.elf \ -sd openwrt-realview-sdcard.img \ -append "console=ttyAMA0 verbose debug root=/dev/mmcblk0p1"
This command opened up a BusyBox which looks as follows :
BusyBox v1.24.2 () built-in shell (ash)
//Says OpenWrt below _______ ________ __ | | .-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_ | - | | _ | -__| || | | || _|| _| |_______| | __|____|__|__||________||__| |____| |__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M
DESIGNATED DRIVER (Bleeding Edge, 49928)
- 2 oz. Orange Juice Combine all juices in a
- 2 oz. Pineapple Juice tall glass filled with
- 2 oz. Grapefruit Juice ice, stir well.
- 2 oz. Cranberry Juice
root@OpenWrt:/# [ 13.897119] smsc911x smsc911x.0 eth0: SMSC911x/921x identified at 0xf0b40000, IRQ: 60 [ 13.934741] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode [ 13.978166] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br-lan: link is not ready [ 15.762764] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state [ 15.764526] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state [ 15.802643] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): br-lan: link becomes ready [ 17.762480] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state root@OpenWrt:/#
There is no details on what to do once this opens up though. And I still need confirmation as to what this means. Is it that QEMU has loaded OpenWRT in my system like a virtual machine or is it a console to access OpenWRT functionalities, etc.
After this I made changes according to "openwrt virtualized using debian, qemu/kvm and a lex twitter system with intel atom d525 and chipset ich8m" section to 'Virtualization proper' too in case it was required, but the Virtualization didn't work.
This done, I moved to link [2], where it explains how to set up mesh testbed. It says"OpenWrt, kamikaze trunk version for x86 with minimal modifications" and so I have downloaded 'openwrt-x86-ext2.image' from Kamikaze. Changed the above code used to load QEMU as : qemu-system-arm -M realview-pbx-a9 -m 1024M -nographic \
-kernel openwrt-realview-vmlinux.elf \ -sd openwrt- \ -sd openwrt-x86-ext2.image \ -append "console=ttyAMA0 verbose debug root=/dev/mmcblk0p1"But loading this hasn't been successful as doing this gives : ...<loading and stuff>... [ 1.304028] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 179:1. [ 1.317832] Freeing unused kernel memory: 196K (c0481000 - c04b2000) [ 1.328078] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance. [ 1.332338] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance.
Next, running the script written in 'OpenWrt' section doesn't work as it says : /tmp/logserver.sh: 3: /tmp/logserver.sh: cannot open /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/log: No such file /tmp/logserver.sh: 3: /tmp/logserver.sh: cannot open /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/log: No such file
Commenting the lines that open this file : while [ 1 ]; do nc -l -p 2050 < /sys/kernel/debug/batman_adv/bat0/log done
gives the error : RTNETLINK answers: File exists Cannot find device "br-lan" Cannot find device "br-lan" ./rc.local: 23: ./rc.local: cannot create /proc/net/batman-adv/interfaces: Directory nonexistent ./rc.local: 24: ./rc.local: cannot create /proc/net/batman-adv/interfaces: Directory nonexistent ./rc.local: 25: ./rc.local: cannot create /proc/net/batman-adv/log_level: Directory nonexistent /tmp/logserver.sh: 1: /tmp/logserver.sh: !/bin/sh: not found Cannot find device "bat0" Cannot find device "bat0"
Next, I have patched both 'vde2-2.3.2_colour.patch' and 'vde2-2.3.2-wirefilter-ethertype.patch'
The final step lists a script for running the scripts to start up all the qemu windows. This throw up a lot many errors. Below is the error it shows:
kaushik@kaushik-HP:~/QEMUopenwrt$ ./command.sh Must be run inside a screen session [sudo] password for kaushik: wirefilter(8722): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8724): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8726): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8728): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8730): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8732): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8734): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8736): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8738): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8740): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8742): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8744): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8746): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8748): Operation not permitted wirefilter(8750): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8567): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8575): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8583): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8591): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8599): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8607): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8615): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8623): Operation not permitted vde_switch(8631): Operation not permitted ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy RTNETLINK answers: File exists ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy RTNETLINK answers: File exists ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy RTNETLINK answers: File exists ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy RTNETLINK answers: File exists ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy RTNETLINK answers: File exists ioctl(TUNSETIFF): Device or resource busy . . .
This I run in a screen as it is mentioned in the guide. It creates many files and folders named num0 to num9, but doesn't proceed after that.
This and some more experimentation I have done with it. So, any help I can get would be most welcome
Thanks and Regards,
Kaushik NP LI | Tw | FB SAP Ambassador, General Secretary, Computer Society Team IEEE UVCE, 3rd Year Undergraduate Student, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, IN
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Ufo ufo@rund.freifunk.net wrote:
Testing batman-adv in virtual maschines on laptops is the most complex and non-realistic way to start with mesh-networking. So its a nice, very demanding student thing.
its much more easier to buy some (more than 2!!) cheap wifi-routers! they have proper wifi, more than one ethernet-interface (!) and there are many openwrt/lede mesh firmwares with a well-configured batman-adv. after that, the next step could be to try to couple your first laptop into that mesh. starting with nothing but laptops seems to be too "versatile".
if you are unfamiliar with qemu and virtualization your should first try to install ubuntu or windows in a virtual machine. please use "virt-manager", a graphical interface for that.
unfortunatly the mentioned "stable" openwrt was forced to use a very old batman-adv version from 2014. So you might use trunk firmware, and use LEDE instead of Openwrt, to have a proper system.
http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/lede/snapshots/targets/x86/generic/lede-x8...
On 04.10.2016 12:11, Kaushik N P wrote:
Hello,
Thank you 'rise.net' for the suggestion. It has given me some ideas, but what I hoped to do was to run the laptop with OpenWRT working with Batman adv like a router. This would enable me in creating a more extensive network without having to buy more routers itself and hopefully provide me with a more versatile network to work on. I will ofcourse be experimenting more along your steps, but I hope to get the QEMU set up and running on my system.
If any one has more info on the QEMU setup, pls do contact.
Thanks and Regards,
Kaushik NP General Secretary, Computer Society Team IEEE UVCE, 3rd Year Undergraduate Student, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, IN
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:38 PM, leftbydefault@riseup.net wrote:
Hello Kaushik
On 2016-10-03 19:44, Kaushik N P wrote:
Hello,
What I hope to find is:-
Another documentation maybe for setting up, or confirmation for setting up (because I can't tell sometimes if the instructions have been followed correctly).
I have no experience in simulating or emulating batman-adv, but I have experience in compiling openwrt from source along with batman-adv and batctl. I can help you with that. batman-adv is built as a kernel module and so it is included by default in Linux kernels >= 2.x. You have mentioned that you are using Linux based operating system, I hope by now, you should be running Linux kernel 4.x. If you want to play around with batman-adv for sometime before emulating, you can use two three Linux based laptops with WiFi interface cards that support IBSS (adhoc mode).
You can check that using
iw list | grep IBSSif the command returned something like Device supports RSN-IBSS. * IBSS
then your Wireless NIC can be switched to ad-hoc mode. We have a bash shell script that does it automatically for you. You can find the script and terminal cast in the following links.
Clarification for my doubt regarding the different types of OpenWRT images (like Kamikaze, Chaos Calmer, Attitude Adjustment,etc), what do they do and which one I should use for working with standard Batman adv setup.
Chaos Calmer (15.x) is the recent stable release of OpenWRT firmware. 'Kamikaze, Altitude Adjustment, etc.,' are just different names given to different versions of OpenWRT releases. OpenWRT are meant to be the operating system for routers and modems. Depending on the configuration of devices, some versions may be supported and some may not be supported on certain routers and modems.
Since you are trying to create a virtual environment, I think should go with Chaos Calmer. (again I have no experience either with creating a virtual environment for OpenWRT nor for batman-adv).
Confirmation method to see if qemu having OpenWRT is setup in my system - as now I have a setup in terminal which says
BusyBox v1.24.2 () built-in shell (ash)
//Says OpenWrt below _______ ________ __ | | .-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_ | - | | _ | -__| || | | || _|| _| |_______| | __|____|__|__||________||__| |____| |__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M
DESIGNATED DRIVER (Bleeding Edge, 49928)
- 2 oz. Orange Juice Combine all juices in a
- 2 oz. Pineapple Juice tall glass filled with
- 2 oz. Grapefruit Juice ice, stir well.
- 2 oz. Cranberry Juice
root@OpenWrt:/# [ 13.897119] smsc911x smsc911x.0 eth0: SMSC911x/921x identified at 0xf0b40000, IRQ: 60 [ 13.934741] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode [ 13.978166] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br-lan: link is not ready [ 15.762764] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state [ 15.764526] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state [ 15.802643] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): br-lan: link becomes ready [ 17.762480] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state root@OpenWrt:/#
I have more doubts, but hopefully, I will get some answers to them from the above questions itself. Hope to hear soon!!!
Thanks and Regards,
Kaushik NP LI | Tw | FB SAP Ambassador, General Secretary, Computer Society Team IEEE UVCE, 3rd Year Undergraduate Student, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, IN