I set up 3 Village Telco MP02 units for Haiti:
Configuration
• Set wired nic ipv4 on my pc to 10.130.1.99, mask 255.255.255.0
• Connect cable to MP02
• Access configuration page at http://10.130.1.20
• Take Advanced Firmware to update firmware (currently
openwrt-MP02-RC3d-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin) at
http://download.villagetelco.org/firmware/secn/unstable/mp02/SECN-2.0/SECN-2.0-RC3d/.
As recommended I chose No on preserve settings, which is why I did the
firmware first.
• There area a lot of choices on firmware and I don’t have a clear view of
which is best. I chose the most generic.
• After the device reboots take Advanced
• Set ip address to 172.18.126.101 (102, 103), netmask 255.255.224.0
• Set gateway and dns to 172.18.96.1
• Set SSID (I chose 1schoolap to put at top of sort sequence)
• Clear or Set Wifi passphrase and set appropriate Encryption
• I didn’t change Wifi Channel or number of connections at this point.
• I disabled mesh, asterisk, and dhcp server.
• save – the page returns with settings saved but not active
• reboot – now settings are active and the page is at 172.18.126.101
Setup SNMP (spoiler alert didn’t quite work)
• telnet to 172.18.126.101(2,3) – out of the box telnet (not ssh) works with
no password
• opkg update - does not work because unzip package is missing (it is
supposed to download Packages.gz, unzip and copy to /var/opkg-lists/snapshots)
• instead wget
http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages/Packages
• cp Packages /var/opkg-lists/snapshots
• now can opkg install snmpd or mini_snmpd (latter recommended, but for me
not yet working)
• I configured munin on xsce to poll the device for traffic and other stats.
I got data with snmpd installed, configured, and running, but not with
mini_snmpd (need to play some more)
• anecdotally, top on the VT MP02 shows about 2% cpu for snmpd, but on an
xo4 reading the data looked to be 25% and more to create graphs. I hope to
improve this with mini-snmpd.
Tim
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