A try with OpenWRT 8.09 in April to setup a WDS with additional AP functionality and encryption, like described in the documentation, failed. So I keeped with my halfbroken solution running on DD-WRT, which is going a bit too commercial these days in my eyes.
Now I have found time to try OpenWRT again for this purpose, since the issue was fixed really fast. I just did setup a stock 8.09.1 installation and then dropped the following into /etc/config/wireless:
config ‘wifi-device’ ‘wl0′
option ‘type’ ‘broadcom’
option ‘channel’ ’5′
option ‘disabled’ ’0′
config wifi-iface
option device “wl0″
option network lan
option mode ap
option ssid “OpenWrt”
option encryption psk2
option key “keyforclients”
config wifi-iface
option device “wl0″
option network lan
option mode wds
option bssid 00:16:B6:19:63:C8
option ssid “OpenWrtWDS”
option encryption psk2
option key “pskforWDS”
And guess what? It worked like a charm! So I could replace the odd DD-WRT boxes. Anyways ... does anybody have an idea where to find the sourcecode of anything > v23 SP1?
Today I uploaded a new nagios-plugins package to unstable. At first I thought I will wait for the next upstream release, but after the announcement to release soon, the months passed by. While we skipped the last stable release due the lenny freeze, there are a couple of bugs fixed in the latest svn snapshot and within the package itself:
[...]
* new upstream
– check_http doesn’t enforce port (Closes: #494835)
– check_http –onredirect=sticky follows using the same IP address
(Closes: #502529)
– Fixed buffer overflow in check_ntp/check_ntp_peer (Closes: #528686)
– Fixed check_mrtg returning UNKNOWN instead of OK (Closes: #335871)
– Fixed check_by_ssh interpretation of quotes in -C parameter
(Closes: #425312)
– Fixed coredump from check_nt when drive not found (Closes: #521097)
– Removed -n option in check_smtp’s help and usage output (Closes: #525307)
– Fixed check_icmp –help output for warn and critical thresholds
(Closes: #530553)
– Fix potential buffer overflow in check_snmp – enforce MAX_OIDS limit
(Closes: #460405)
[...]
* add trailing $ to check_httpname, thanks Daniel Pocock (Closes: #524629)
* add informations into README.Debian how to use plugins (Closes: #525168)
* add check_nscp which uses the default port of NSClient++ (Closes: #528262)
[...]
So I thought it would be comfortable for the users to upload the svn snapshot instead to wait longer for a stable upstream release and leave the bugs unfixed or incorporate the bugfixes into latest stable release, which have to be sorted out again with the next stable release.
If there are no show stoppers, a backport will appear hopefully short before debconf at backports.org.
While we are at it, yes I’m at debconf too from 23th to 31th. Hopefully see you there.
I’m on vacation the 1rst two weeks of June in Manerba del Garda at Lago di Garda. If some dudes are around for beering / chatting / keysigning, feel free to contact me til Friday.
In case of urgent actions (for example #530271), I’m without regular internet access there. Feel free to NMU if needed, but try to avoid breaking things. For secuirty related issues please coordinate with team@security.debian.org.
Since I’m probably most of the rest of the week busy with organising our camping, please send a short ping, if I’m not responding by time, please go ahead.
