2016-11-14 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Re: Version of coova-chilli is outdated

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From: Erik Andre Aabrekk <er***e@oneway.no>
Message Hash: 7deab35441fd7b7b2134734022f655684c5fa7666ab5e0a0302889081821016b
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UTC Datetime: 2016-11-14 14:08:21 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 22:08:21 +0100

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Hey Tim! let me know if you would like a virtual server for testing. i hook
you up One. Very great product!

Erik Andre

14. nov. 2016 22.05 skrev "Timothy White" <ti***8@gmail.com>:

> I assumed when I made the Gitlab project public, that the builds would be
> public. Fixed now.
> If you head to https://gitlab.com/grase/coova-chilli/builds you can see
> the automated builds. Only AMD64 builds are working at the moment. If you
> then go into the trusty-amd64 build that completed, you can download the
> build artifacts which includes a .deb file you can manually install.
>
> Please note, that these packages have had no testing. I'll do manual
> testing of packages once I get i386 builds working, and once I've done
> basic testing of packages I'll put them in the nightly repo.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:33 AM, Hotspotuser <jo***s@algardata.pt>
> wrote:
>
>> Tim
>>
>> When can we have a install script, to test it out?
>>
>> domingo, 13 de Novembro de 2016 às 11:53:11 UTC, timwhite88 escreveu:
>>>
>>> As a further update. I believe all the essentials to make it work are
>>> now in there. There are some core modifications not in that I need to test,
>>> however without them the things that may fail are:
>>>
>>>    - Traffic for showing the status page may be counted towards a data
>>>    quota instead of being excluded
>>>    - Some of the status window Javascript might be missing information
>>>    (however I believe this won't happen with the 3.8.0 version as we changed
>>>    all that but the patches were still in the old package)
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Timothy White <ti***.@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Slowly
>>>>
>>>> I used to compile each package by hand, which is a pain, especially if
>>>> I want to support Debian and Ubuntu, as sometimes there are differences (or
>>>> hacks for a single package).
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently working on a fork of the new Coova Chilli git repo, with
>>>> all our changes in a branch. This will make it easier in the future to
>>>> upgrade versions. It'll also show us what code changes are actually needed.
>>>>
>>>> You can view the branch on either Gitlab (https://gitlab.com/grase/coov
>>>> a-chilli/tree/grase-1.3.2) or Github (https://github.com/GraseHotsp
>>>> ot/coova-chilli/tree/grase-1.3.2). Why both? Well Gitlab CI is
>>>> amazing, supporting building multiple "products" at a time. Other CI's do
>>>> support Matrix builds, but sometimes it's more complex than that. Gitlab
>>>> will mirror Github's repo, and run the builds for us that we need.
>>>> (Hopefully, when I get anything other than the AMD64 builds working).
>>>>
>>>> At the moment, I've got the bare minimum of changes in for the Grase
>>>> Hotspot. More changes will come shortly to bring it inline with previous
>>>> packages (once I read all the Changes in the new versions and only bring
>>>> the features we still need). Once I get enough in, I'll put the builds in
>>>> the nightly repo.
>>>>
>>>> To make my life easier, for those who want to test new packages, what
>>>> architecture and Ubuntu/Debian versions are you running?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Hotspotuser <jo***.@algardata.pt>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Tim
>>>>>
>>>>> Any news on the upgrading of CoovaChilli to latest version in Grase?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> domingo, 14 de Agosto de 2016 às 11:47:27 UTC+1, timwhite88 escreveu:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Jose
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry for the delays. I've had a quick look at getting the latest
>>>>>> Coova-chilli going. The main things to look at are ensuring the config and
>>>>>> ipup.sh files from https://github.com/GraseH
>>>>>> otspot/grase-coova-chilli/tree/master/debian/extra_files are
>>>>>> installed. The other patches and changes I've made are less important
>>>>>> depending on your situation. You'll probably want
>>>>>> '--enable-gardenaccounting'. In theory, this should remove the need for one
>>>>>> of my patches, but my testing hasn't conclusively proven that yet.
>>>>>> Also, the debian packages built by upstream currently treat all the
>>>>>> files in /etc/chilli/ as config files, which while correct, lots of the
>>>>>> files in there aren't config files, which causes issues on each upgrade.
>>>>>> This just means you'll have to answer debconf questions regularly about
>>>>>> overwriting changed files. I do have a fix for this in my repo.
>>>>>> Upstream also defaults to not starting Coova Chilli, so you'll need
>>>>>> to edit /etc/default/coova-chilli after install to enable it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now that upstream uses Git, I'm in the process of trying to take
>>>>>> upstream's git repo, and just create a branch for our patches, with the
>>>>>> hope to get some of them accepted upstream in the future.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In theory though, right now you can build a debian package from
>>>>>> upstream, copy in the config and ipup.sh, and most things should work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry for the delays.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tim
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Hotspotuser <jo***.@algardata.pt>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any news on this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tim, care to share the ./configure parameters used in GRASE so that
>>>>>>> we can try to tackle this ourselves?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Got Coova-Chilli 1.3.4 installed today, but im guessing i got the
>>>>>>> wrong parameters for ./configure.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ./configure --enable-chilliquery --enable-coa --enable-radproxy --
>>>>>>> enable-dhcpradius --enable-dnslog --enable-uamdomainfile --enable-ieee8021q
>>>>>>> --enable-json --enable-largelimits --enable-leakybucket --enable-uamanyip
>>>>>>> --enable-uamuiport --enable-libjson
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sábado, 25 de Junho de 2016 às 10:24:42 UTC+1, christopher escreveu:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The version of coova-chilli being used in grase hotspot is two
>>>>>>>> years
>>>>>>>> outdated.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> They have released another version although the numbering is not
>>>>>>>> what I
>>>>>>>> would call conventional.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you take a look in the system log files you will see redir.c
>>>>>>>> client
>>>>>>>> time outs and performance issues when this is happening.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On their new mailing list one of their current development team
>>>>>>>> told
>>>>>>>> someone who brought this up to upgrade.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As I am not sure of exactly what files are patched I am unable to
>>>>>>>> upgrade
>>>>>>>> to see if this issue has been fixed.  They claim to have fixed a
>>>>>>>> number of
>>>>>>>> errors from the old code base.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I know that there is one patch listed on the grase wiki but is this
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> only changes that have to be made?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It would be nice for me to be able to upgrade and forget about it
>>>>>>>> until
>>>>>>>> things change.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Also there is an issue with Debian and Ubuntu with network traffic
>>>>>>>> stopping if you have both ipv4 and ipv6 enabled.  You need to
>>>>>>>> disable ipv6
>>>>>>>> to prevent the network interfaces from being constantly being
>>>>>>>> reconfigured.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Christopher.
>>>>>>>>
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