[LEDE-DEV] LEDE as hardware Load Balancer (a small router like a big-ip appliance)

2017-03-24 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Would you not like to turn your router into a low cost hardware load balancer like Big IP? Whether you run your own business or just home office services like eMail, print server, and and a local wiki, it gets annoying when you have to turn down a server for upgrades or maintenance. When you d

Re: [LEDE-DEV] LEDE as hardware Load Balancer (a small router like a big-ip appliance)

2017-03-25 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
, Rafał Miłecki wrote: On 24 March 2017 at 23:43, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: I do take no notice and care very little about the various versions of open source license. They annoy me a lot. Licenses are an American thing. I am European. It is sufficient to say it is open and free. If you want to

[LEDE-DEV] What happened to mwan3?

2017-04-21 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
I built trunk r3987 and luci mwan3 is no longer there. My previous build was r3680 and all was good. What happened to mwan3? ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] LEDE as hardware Load Balancer (a small router like a big-ip appliance)

2017-04-28 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
How long should we expect to wait until this project is considered to be included in lede? On 26/03/17 04:19, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: OK I will wait to receive feedback on the actual software and I will collate all the changes (if any). I have been using this solution since February 2016

Re: [LEDE-DEV] openwrt and lede - remerge proposal

2017-05-12 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
I think Edwin highlights one of the main issues associated with both OpenWRT and LEDE The issue is that, although these are "open" projects, the participation is de-facto closed to a small group of core developers that make it particularly challenging for anyone outside to contribute. The vo

[LEDE-DEV] mwan3 not working

2017-05-12 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
The last time I built lede it was r4041 Today I updated to r4116 and mwan3 no longer works. In: cgi-bin/luci/admin/network/mwan I have all interfaces showing offline and red with the following: MWAN Interface Systemlog *No MWAN systemlog history found* Since sometimes feeds might not be upda

Re: [LEDE-DEV] mwan3 not working

2017-05-13 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Mauro Mozzarelli : The last time I built lede it was r4041 Today I updated to r4116 and mwan3 no longer works. In: cgi-bin/luci/admin/network/mwan I have all interfaces showing offline and red with the following: MWAN Interface Systemlog *No MWAN systemlog history found* Since sometimes feeds

Re: [LEDE-DEV] mwan3 not working

2017-05-13 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
setting the PATH variable. Mauro On 13/05/17 12:27, Yousong Zhou wrote: On 13 May 2017 at 19:15, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: It looks like the problem extends also to other systems and might be traced back to the relocation of /usr/bin/ip to /sbin/ip For your information, fix for mwan3 ha

[LEDE-DEV] Build fails with missing libgcrypt dependency

2017-05-16 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Two days ago I have done a fresh git pull (from scratch) and I built LEDE without errors (well mwan3 still not working, but that is a different matter because LEDE did build). After the latest update done just right now, LEDE fails to build with the following: Configuring kmod-usb-storage-ex

[LEDE-DEV] IP Phone ---> SIP ---> PSTN gateway with LEDE/OpenWRT?

2017-06-11 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
My requirement is as follows: From Location A I want to be able to receive and place phone calls using the Public Switched Telephone Network line present on Location B. On both Location A and B I have BT Home Hub 5 routers running LEDE. I was wondering if it were possible (and how to) run a

[LEDE-DEV] ncurses dependency issue with latest update

2017-08-22 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
After the latest git update today lede code fails to build with the following: mkdir -p /spi/router/lede/trunk-ipvs/bin/targets/lantiq/xrx200/packages /spi/router/lede/trunk-ipvs/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/util-linux-2.30.1/ipkg-mips_24kc/dmesg/CONTROL /spi/router/lede/trunk-ipvs/staging

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Issues with xtables-addons after rebasing today

2017-08-23 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
It fails also with fresh git pull: Checking 'grep'... ok. Checking 'getopt'... ok. Checking 'stat'... ok. Checking 'unzip'... ok. Checking 'bzip2'... ok. Checking 'wget'... ok. Checking 'perl'... ok. Checking 'python'... ok. Checking 'git'... ok. Checking 'file'... ok. Checking 'ldconfig-stub'..

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Issues with xtables-addons after rebasing today

2017-08-23 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Wrong thread. My apologies On 23/08/17 09:29, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: It fails also with fresh git pull: Checking 'grep'... ok. Checking 'getopt'... ok. Checking 'stat'... ok. Checking 'unzip'... ok. Checking 'bzip2'... ok. Checking &#x

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Issues with ncurses (Was: Issues with xtables-addons after rebasing today)

2017-08-23 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Will this be fixed so that a normal git pull will no longer fail? On 23/08/17 10:12, Koen Vandeputte wrote: On 2017-08-23 10:39, Baptiste Jonglez wrote: On 23-08-17, Koen Vandeputte wrote: Now this one pops up again (reported by Mauro Mozzarelli yesterday): find /mnt/ramdisk/test

[LEDE-DEV] LEDE Reboot SNAPSHOT r4940-00e9a7a lantiq fails to connect to DSL

2017-09-28 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
From r4940-00e9a7a release, just built, BT Home Hub 5 router fails to connect to dsl at boot. After issuing: # /etc/init.d/dsl_control stop and then # /etc/init.d/dsl_control start It will reconnect eventually, but it won't automatically after a reboot. I have seen a lantiq patch coming th

Re: [LEDE-DEV] LEDE Reboot SNAPSHOT r4940-00e9a7a lantiq fails to connect to DSL

2017-09-30 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Since r4940 BT Home Hub 5 router fails to connect to DSL on boot. No attempts are made to start DSL. This is a blocking issue. I am concerned I have not received an acknowledgement or questions this issue. On 28/09/17 20:25, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: From r4940-00e9a7a release, just built, BT

Re: [LEDE-DEV] LEDE Reboot SNAPSHOT r4940-00e9a7a lantiq fails to connect to DSL

2017-09-30 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
I have now opened bug FS#1028 On 30/09/17 16:44, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: Since r4940 BT Home Hub 5 router fails to connect to DSL on boot. No attempts are made to start DSL. This is a blocking issue. I am concerned I have not received an acknowledgement or questions this issue. On 28/09

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Kernel version in next major release

2017-10-07 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
I would go for option 1 There is little to gain from the new kernel and lots to risk in terms of time, compatibility, additional work. On 07/10/17 12:43, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: We had some discussions in IRC about the kernel version which should be used in the next major release after 17.01.

[LEDE-DEV] regdb.txt

2017-11-20 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Where is regdb.txt gone? Has it been replaced by a file with a different name? ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

[LEDE-DEV] Latest trunk pull fails to compile?

2017-12-08 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Hello, I am trying to compile trunk just pulled today and this is how it fails: [...] Configuring libpopt. Configuring getopt. Configuring gzip. Configuring atm-tools. Configuring kmod-ltq-deu-vr9. Configuring kmod-fs-cifs. Configuring kmod-usb-storage-extras. Configuring xz-utils. Configurin

[LEDE-DEV] odhcpd vs odhcpd-ipv6only

2017-12-12 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Hello, I understand that odhcpd-ipv6only has now become the default and it conflicts with odhcpd. Please could you let me know if odhcpd-ipv6only supports the existing configuration file /etc/config/dhcp? And what if I have an ipv4 only LAN? What was the rationale for the switch? And fi

[LEDE-DEV] New lede->openwrt build, missing ubifs firmware build

2017-12-12 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
...again, on the latest changes... I noticed the firmware now builds with "openwrt" prefix instead of "lede". I am building for xrx200 lantiq (BT Home Hub 5). With previous LEDE builds I used to get both ubifs and squashfs firmware versions built. Now I get only squashfs. Is there a new conf

Re: [LEDE-DEV] New lede->openwrt build, missing ubifs firmware build

2017-12-12 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Why not leave it as a configurable (in .config) option? ubifs is faster On 12/12/17 12:56, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: ...again, on the latest changes... I noticed the firmware now builds with "openwrt" prefix instead of "lede". I am building for xrx200 lantiq (BT Home H

Re: [LEDE-DEV] New lede->openwrt build, missing ubifs firmware build

2017-12-14 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Please can we have an option to build ubifs firmware? I noticed a considerable slow down especially at boot time using squashfs firmware on BT Home Hub 5A. Thank you. On 12/12/17 13:57, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: Why not leave it as a configurable (in .config) option? ubifs is faster On

[LEDE-DEV] Trunk "make menuconfig" exit warnings

2018-01-18 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Since about the last 10 days, when I do a make menuconfig, on exit save I do get the following warnings that I had not seen before (it is a long list and I include only some excerpts). I also pulled a fresh trunk in case I missed something in the updates, but they did not go away. Am I doing an

[LEDE-DEV] Clarify on github lede/openwrt repositories

2018-01-18 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Quick question on lede to openwrt remerge (sorry I do not read all the messages..) What is the merged openwrt trunk development repository now? This? https://github.com/lede-project/source.git [so far I have been using this which gets updated] Or this? https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt.gi

[LEDE-DEV] master fails to build at openvpn after today's git pull

2018-02-16 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
I am not sure if you are already aware, master fails to build after today's git pull: -sections -std=c99 -znow -zrelro -Wl,--gc-sections -o openvpn argv.o base64.o buffer.o clinat.o comp.o compstub.o comp-lz4.o crypto.o crypto_openssl.o crypto_mbedtls.o dhcp.o error.o event.o fdmisc.o forward

[LEDE-DEV] mwan3 status: missing graphic status boxes

2018-03-04 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
I noticed that in the latest builds (from r6375 and onwards) mwan3 status cgi-bin/luci/admin/status/mwan is missing the graphic traffic light boxes. Is this an error or have they been removed? The last build I have with the graphics is r6320 - git-18.062.27847-1e46a67 ___

[LEDE-DEV] is SMP for BT Home Hub 5 in 17.01.4?

2018-03-16 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Sorry, I have no time to read the whole thread, so I have a quick question in the hope someone could provide a quick answer: Does the latest official release 17.01.4 include SMP for lantiq BT Home Hub 5? The main reason I keep using master is because the last time I tried the official release

[LEDE-DEV] New nagging message in Flash Operations page

2018-03-23 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Since the last update that took me to OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r6520-02fba1a / LuCI Master (git-18.081.35142-84b3ba4) Under system->Backup / Flash Firmware I get this nagging message inside a highlighted yellow box: "Custom files (certificates, scripts) may remain on the system. To prevent this, per

[LEDE-DEV] LEDE static routes not working when masquerade/firewall is on

2017-01-10 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Hello, When I switched from OpenWrt to LEDE static routes configured on my network stopped working. My configuration is as follows: Internet ADSL | | Internet ADSLRouter C [Dynamic IP]

Re: [LEDE-DEV] FS#490 - BT Home Hub 5 Ethernet WAN Port configuration

2017-02-10 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
John, To summarize, with my use case scenarios I am trying to make the point that the effort to make the Red Ethernet behave as a WAN does not have to be a priority because it is the least useful case on this router. The priority should be: 1) to make it usable as another Ethernet interface

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] BT Home Hub 5A: configure Red Ethernet as DMZ interface (FS#490) and fix Red Ethernet switch port (FS#390)

2017-02-12 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
On 12/02/17 15:56, Mathias Kresin wrote: 12.02.2017 15:55, Felix Fietkau: @Mathias: could you perhaps refactor the commits to put the wan->xwan rename *after* the ethernet port VLAN change? I'm also a bit sceptical about the interface rename and would like to discuss this further, but I think t

[LEDE-DEV] incoming connections on multiple WANs

2017-02-12 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
I configured one of my routers with 2 x WAN using mwan3 package. All is OK when the requests are outgoing. There is a routing issue with incoming connections. In practical terms I can have incoming connections only on the WAN interface that is configured with the lowest default metric (set at

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] BT Home Hub 5A: configure Red Ethernet as DMZ interface (FS#490) and fix Red Ethernet switch port (FS#390)

2017-02-16 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
at only the minority of the uses managed to configure a working ethernet wan. Mathias ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev -- Mauro Mozzarelli eMail: ma...@ezplanet.net Phone: +44 7941 727378 _

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] BT Home Hub 5A: configure Red Ethernet as DMZ interface (FS#490) and fix Red Ethernet switch port (FS#390)

2017-02-17 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
on the Yellow switch and WAN on the Red Ethernet. This does not happen with the unmodified code where the Red Ethernet is configured as eth1.2. It looks like the Ethernet ports get into an identity crisis with the patch. Mauro On 16/02/17 17:37, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: Mathias, I have just

[LEDE-DEV] Identifying kernel version (major) during build (.mk file)

2017-02-18 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
I was wondering someone could help me the following problem: I want to add some device drivers to the kernel build, but the kernel configuration in kernel version 3 is different from the configuration in kernel version 4. I was looking for a parameter that I could use inside an .mk file to f

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] BT Home Hub 5A: configure Red Ethernet as DMZ interface (FS#490) and fix Red Ethernet switch port (FS#390)

2017-02-18 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Mathias, Thank you for the patch I just built SNAPSHOT r3526-bececcc with your "fix arp package leaking in xrx200" patch and the problem is solved. Excellent work. Thank you! Mauro On 18/02/17 15:57, Mathias Kresin wrote: 17.02.2017 11:42, Mauro Mozzarelli: The BT Home H

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] BT Home Hub 5A: configure Red Ethernet as DMZ interface (FS#490) and fix Red Ethernet switch port (FS#390)

2017-02-18 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Mathias, Thank you for the patch I just built SNAPSHOT r3526-bececcc with your "fix arp package leaking in xrx200" patch and the problem is solved. Excellent work. Thank you! Mauro On 18/02/17 15:57, Mathias Kresin wrote: 17.02.2017 11:42, Mauro Mozzarelli: The BT Home H

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Identifying kernel version (major) during build (.mk file)

2017-02-19 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
On 18.02.2017 12.49, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: So far with trial and error (unfortunately I could not find specific documentation) I found that I can test reliably a variable that includes both kernel version and patchlevel as follows: LINUX_4_0||LINUX_4_1||LINUX_4_2||LINUX_4_3||LINUX_4_4||LINUX_4_5

[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] Add ip_vs kernel netfilter modules to enable load balancing capabilities

2017-02-19 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Author: Mauro Mozzarelli Date: Sun Feb 19 11:33:23 2017 + IPVS (IP Virtual Server) implements transport-layer load balancing inside the Linux kernel, so called Layer-4 switching. IPVS running on a host acts as a load balancer at the front of a cluster of real servers, it can direct

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Identifying kernel version (major) during build (.mk file)

2017-02-20 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
build. Mauro On 20/02/17 09:40, Jonas Gorski wrote: On 19 February 2017 at 12:50, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: Thanks to those who provided directions. I will settle with checking on LINUX_3_18. I am not sure who manages build variables, but in future it would be useful to be able to identify which

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] Add ip_vs kernel netfilter modules to enable load balancing capabilities

2017-02-20 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
02/2017 13:01, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: Author: Mauro Mozzarelli Date: Sun Feb 19 11:33:23 2017 + IPVS (IP Virtual Server) implements transport-layer load balancing ^ stray tab inside the Linux kernel, so called Layer-4 switching. IPVS running on a host acts as a load balancer at the f

[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] Add ip_vs kernel netfilter modules to enable load balancing, capabilities

2017-02-24 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
services of the real servers to appear as a virtual service on a single IP address. This patch adds kmod-nf-ipvs kernel modules option to LEDE kernel netfilter Signed-off-by: Mauro Mozzarelli --- package/kernel/linux/modules/netfilter.mk | 100 ++ 1 file changed

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] Add ip_vs kernel netfilter modules to enable load balancing, capabilities

2017-02-24 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
elper-extra. Mauro On 24/02/17 10:43, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: IPVS (IP Virtual Server) implements transport-layer load balancing inside the Linux kernel, so called Layer-4 switching. IPVS running on a host acts as a load balancer at the front of a cluster of real servers, it can direct req

[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] Add ip_vs kernel netfilter modules to enable load balancing, capabilities

2017-02-24 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
services of the real servers to appear as a virtual service on a single IP address. This patch adds kmod-nf-ipvs kernel modules option to LEDE kernel netfilter Signed-off-by: Mauro Mozzarelli --- package/kernel/linux/modules/netfilter.mk | 89 +++ 1 file changed, 89

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] Add ip_vs kernel netfilter modules to enable load balancing, capabilities

2017-02-28 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
/02/17 10:30, John Crispin wrote: On 24/02/2017 12:42, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: IPVS (IP Virtual Server) implements transport-layer load balancing inside the Linux kernel, so called Layer-4 switching. IPVS running on a host acts as a load balancer at the front of a cluster of real servers, it can

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] Add ip_vs kernel netfilter modules to enable load balancing, capabilities

2017-02-28 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
on scripts conforming with openwrt/lede standards. The package fits in /package/network/utils. Please could you let me know whether I can post the patch to add ipvsadm here or if I have to follow a different process? Mauro On 28/02/17 11:52, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: Hello John, I sent the f

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] Add ip_vs kernel netfilter modules to enable load balancing, capabilities

2017-02-28 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
n 28/02/17 11:53, John Crispin wrote: On 28/02/2017 12:52, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote: Then I take the output from git format-patch and I post it to the mailing list. How exactly did you do this ? i assume using copy&paste into your mail client ? try using "git send-email"

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] Add ip_vs kernel netfilter modules to enable load balancing capabilities

2017-03-01 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
@John, I send this patch using git send-email. Please let me know if this one is OK. Please note that patches sent previously are superseded by this version. Mauro On 28/02/17 15:54, ma...@ezplanet.org wrote: From: Mauro Mozzarelli IPVS (IP Virtual Server) implements transport-layer load

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Drumming up more interest in LEDE

2017-03-03 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
I have been trying to make a very simple contribution to LEDE, but it has been a frustrating process because my contribution got stuck due to form rather than substance. Unfortunately this might turn away contributors who do not have the patience to persevere. I would like to suggest, that w

[LEDE-DEV] Help with luci: building DynamicList out of uci configuration parameters

2017-03-04 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Hello, I am a newby with luci and I hope to find some help. I need to present a DynamicList of values that I need to take from a configuration file I tried to look at get_zones and get_networks functions as an example to build my own code, but when I invoke them like this: local net = r

[LEDE-DEV] Please help with submitting contributions

2017-03-07 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
Hello, I would like to make contributions to lede, but so far I bumped into a series of obstacles. So far I tried the following: git format-patch, then copy and paste into email -> was not accepted git send-email -> I do not know whether the patch was accepted, I did not receive any feedb

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Please help with submitting contributions

2017-03-07 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
I did, but it isn't there, so something has not worked. I have now created a pull request. It isn't perfect in its form as I meant originally to create one request each for the kernel and for the tool, but I couldn't tame git to do what I wanted. I hope this one finally goes through: https

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Drumming up more interest in LEDE

2017-03-07 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
On 08/03/17 00:59, Philip Prindeville wrote: On Mar 3, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: Hi, Am 03.03.2017 um 17:55 schrieb Mauro Mozzarelli: I would like to suggest, that when a new potential contributor is putting forward his proposed change, an expert buddy is assigned to guide the

[LEDE-DEV] latest master fails to build

2018-04-13 Thread Mauro Mozzarelli
I just pulled the latest from master and the build fails with the following: g++-uc  -Os -pipe -mno-branch-likely -mips32r2 -mtune=24kc -fno-caller-saves -fno-plt -fhonour-copts -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=unused-result -msoft-float -mips16 -minterlink-mips16 -iremap/sto/rou