2016-11-09 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Re: Version of coova-chilli is outdated

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From: Hotspotuser <jo***s@algardata.pt>
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UTC Datetime: 2016-11-09 06:11:10 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 05:11:10 -0800

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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/GraseHotspot/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 
> <javascript:>> 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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