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Burngreave Community Area
Network
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The Burngreave Pebble
  • The BCAN building brick is a wireless router built out of a redundant PC
  • Pebble Linux http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble
  • Meshing software from Southampton Open Wireless Network http://www.sown.org.uk
  • Burngreave Patches to ease configuration http://www.burngreave.net/~aland/it/bcan/bcanpebble/
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Pebble Linux
  • Based on Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
  • Read Only Filesystem
  • Small (less than 64Mb)
  • Turns Prism2 based wifi cards into Access Points, using hostap
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Meshing Software
  • Allows network to build itself
  • Uses standard mature protocols
  • Under Active development
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Burngreave Patches
  • Ease configuration and installation
  • Lead to fully embedded system and custom Linux distro for wireless meshes.
  • PlexusAP https://sourceforge.net/projects/plexusap/
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Installing  a Burngreave Pebble
  • Get a copy of Toms Rootboot disk http://www.toms.net/rb/
  • Boot PC with it
  • Use fdisk to create a single partition of at least 128 Mb and create a filesystem on that partition.
  • Unpack the bcanpebble tar to the harddisk
  • Run the pebble install script
  • Remove the floppy disk and reboot
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Configuring the Pebble
  • Edit /etc/pebblemesh.conf
  • Run pebbleconf script
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Things to do
  • Finish pebbleconf script
  • Add firewall rules
  • DNS settings
  • Logging Facilities
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Future Development
  • Enhanced routing protocols
  • Traffic Shaping
  • Support for Web Based Configuration
  • Authentication schemes (Radius, MAC address)
  • IP Mobility
  • IPv6