Re: [lime] QoS in Libremesh

On 01/02/23 08:22, catuaba wrote:
> hi Cris,
>
> Thank you for the welcome <3
>
hi catuaba, thanks to you
for write
and for your questions!

This give us the possibility to understand better our shared needs and
common issues.. and documentations :)

sorry for the late, I was travelling untill yesterday.
>
> We are not having the phone booths anymore, currently we have a kiosk
> inside the school to allow who does not have a device to connect to
> internet and the "gate" is down, APs connection is open without pirania.
> We have a server providing some services but seems that people is not using
> it so much, understanding their internet usage could help us to
> provide services that feets better to their needs (I believe that
> talking to them also can help in such way but I have the perception of when we
> directly ask the answer use to be different of how they really behave
> hehe)
>
>> And if the community wants.. is also possible appear in the homepage of
>> Libremesh website, we are in the process to do.
>
> I spoke to them and they agree, what infos we should to provide?

I think we will add a section on the home page as now in
https://libremesh.org/

as the table of the Free networks.

So we will write the name, a link, a logo and a geografical indicator,
like: Guifi.net,Iberian peninsula,http://guifi.net, logo
    
so, I can suppose, but please correct me:

Janastu CowMesh, Rural Karnataka,
https://open.janastu.org/projects/cowmesh ,
this image? https://blog.janastu.org/assets/images/logo.png
>
>
> thank you for sharing the documentation. I was reading it and can you
> please help me to understand some details?
>
> I saw that you have configured prometheus with 3 groups:
> - station(AP), node(mesh) and home(gatway)
> So the configuration of each node-export of them are diffents?
> Do you have examples?
>
>

we are using this dashboards:
https://git.lattuga.net/antennine/grafana_dashboard
and there is a small example of /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml in the readme

today I wrote a small article trying to explain why we started to do this:
https://antennine.noblogs.org/post/2023/02/08/cosa-ci-serve-avere-un-punto-di-osservazione/

you can find some images of the dashboards, but I didn't put those about
traffic of the single nodes. I don't know if the others of the network like.

So about the tags: are most temporarily and we try to divided between
transits and at the end we didn't tag the gateways. And the tags name is
possible that we will change.

The role mesh-routers are Libremesh routers in houses that are
branches of the net and that tag is useful for us to know that the
traffic of that nodes is not a single bandwith consume, but is shared
with the connections in transit there. Some are gateway, some not.

The home-router are Libremesh routers that are single Access Point in an
house.

All the others are mesh_stations, that we want that they have link only
with other mesh station, in ideal way and not with PC or smartphone.
Some of them are single consume and other not because they see more than
one other mesh_stations, so monitoring in this case is easy only for
"leaf nodes", final node of a path. And we will have to add maybe a new
tag for them... we will see in the future.

In our monitor is not possible see all the dump access point (dumb AP),
there are a lots and we use most as final wifi station where the people
connect at home. Are cheap or gifted.
But they aren't flashed with Libremesh, and have names of plants to
recognize.
The antennas/routers with libremesh most have name of insects, to
recognize and ask to the people to not connect directly with the
mesh-stations because increase the noise in the internet connections
because those wifi are the mesh links with the other houses..

> ohhhhh it is nice to use Ansible to give a hand <3 in our case, is a
> single network and we was already using grafana to monitor local services
> so adding a new category for the network itself was not an issue BUT
> currently all the nodes are threated as the same hehe...
> Can you share please the template you are using to plot the graphs? I
> would like to compare the differences between what we have.
>
> Was really nice to meet you and everybody else during the meeting.

Also for me!

see you soon

Cristina
>
> bjs,
> catuaba
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