2016-11-28 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Re: Version of coova-chilli is outdated

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From: Hotspotuser <jo***s@algardata.pt>
Message Hash: e2e5600eb7f37add0ca03d5d00336f29930707d65eee249df0c1514ac6b2f912
Message ID: <cb200e69-ef22-424a-b6be-4eb8db8b2cf6@grasehotspot.org>
Reply To: <CAESLx0+_Nu_3htw-nLUd_8F_TKpFxUm46VDCgqK92ANQrmietw@mail.gmail.com>
UTC Datetime: 2016-11-28 10:18:06 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:18:06 -0800

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Hi Tim

I have a ubuntu server 16.04 ready to install your chilli solution, what is 
the best procedure to do so?

Install grase, and then coova-chilli on top?


sábado, 26 de Novembro de 2016 às 20:51:03 UTC, timwhite88 escreveu:
>
> And i386 builds have worked too! Now for the testing!
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Timothy White <ti***.@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> ARM builds are now working. All builds are still not tested. Hopefully 
>> i386 will be working shortly.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 4:28 AM, Hotspotuser <jo***.@algardata.pt 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> Excelent! Monday i'll setup a machine just to check this out... and 
>>> report back (when i can).
>>>
>>> segunda-feira, 14 de Novembro de 2016 às 21:05:56 UTC, timwhite88 
>>> escreveu:
>>>>
>>>> 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***.@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/coova-chilli/tree/grase-1.3.2) or Github (
>>>>>>> https://github.com/GraseHotspot/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/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> 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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