[isf-wifidog] Some new features

Philippe April isf_lists at philippeapril.com
Sam 24 Sep 20:12:21 EDT 2005


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Ohhhh.

Well, I'll send the change to the guys over at openwrt then, but only  
when we release a new stable (1.1.3).

Philippe April
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On 24-Sep-05, at 12:39 PM, kaouete wrote:

> no no, i mean the cvs of openwrt, with the packoge/wifidog
> directory :]
>
> kaouete
>
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:15:37PM -0400, Philippe April wrote:
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>> It's sourceforge's CVS that's delayed/slow, I just checked out a new
>> version with my developer login and it's indeed updated.
>>
>> If you need a snapshot, let me know.
>>
>> Philippe April
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>> On 24-Sep-05, at 12:05 PM, kaouete wrote:
>>
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> dont forget to update the wifidog.conf on the openwrt cvs, for the
>>> moment (in fact i checked 2hours ago :) it is the old one.
>>>
>>> kaouete
>>>
>>> ps: these changes are great, thanks a lot :]
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:03:34AM -0400, Philippe April wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just committed some new/old features to CVS, we'll test more and
>>>> deploy them in the next version of WiFiDog (I hope!).
>>>>
>>>> *1. I added {Saul Albert,Jo Walsh,Schuyler}'s patch to send MAC
>>>> address as the node_id.
>>>>
>>>> Mina: I saw your comment regarding "if we want it to be the new
>>>> default or not", I personally think so. Some folks use the  
>>>> 'default'
>>>> node for a long while and it ruins some of our stats on the prod
>>>> server :)
>>>>
>>>> Not just that, I think a lot of people would actually pick to  
>>>> use the
>>>> MAC address as the node ID instead of creating IDs (which are  
>>>> random)
>>>> anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Everybody: let's see what you guys have to say. I personally don't
>>>> mind either ways, but the default is now the mac address (if
>>>> nothing's specified in the config) and the config's node_id has  
>>>> been
>>>> commented. We can revert anytime, we'd just need to add a new  
>>>> flag in
>>>> the config, something like "UseMACAsNodeID".
>>>>
>>>> *2. I added new code and rules to allow people to specify  
>>>> trusted MAC
>>>> addresses.
>>>> It's an old request, which is handy. Of course it could be done by
>>>> the authentication server. I think it's nice to be able to do it on
>>>> the WiFidog gateway since some people would actually run it with a
>>>> light auth server (or none!).
>>>>
>>>> *3. Some new features are coming, including Mina's cool:
>>>>    1. Update
>>>>    2. Restart
>>>>    3. "Look Ma! No downtime!"
>>>>    ... modifications.
>>>>
>>>> See changelog below.. Have a good night!
>>>>
>>>> ChangeLog:
>>>> 2005-09-24 Philippe April <philippe at ilesansfil.org>
>>>>    * (finally) Added {Saul Albert,Jo Walsh,Schuyler}'s patch (thank
>>>> you!) to send
>>>>    the GW interface's mac address as the node_id if no node_id is
>>>> specified. It allows
>>>>    the use of generic configuration files without the need to
>>>> hardcode the
>>>>    node_id in.
>>>>    * Added TrustedMACList configuration variable which allows
>>>> specifying
>>>>    MAC addresses which are allowed to go through without
>>>> authentication.
>>>>    * Updated OpenWrt instructions.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Philippe April
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