Afrimesh Network Management Dashboard - 0.9-r721 Ubuntu BETA - Wireless Africa | Google Groups

Afrimesh Network Management Dashboard - 0.9-r721 Ubuntu BETA - Wireless Africa | Google Groups

Antoine van Gelder

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More options Feb 25 2010, 5:16 pm

Building on the innovative research efforts and tireless support of
the Wireless Africa group at the Meraka Institute of the CSIR [1], the
sometimes terrifying growth of the Scarborough Wireless Users Group
[2] and tools developed by the Open Mesh team [3] I am pleased to be
able to finally announce the BETA release of the Afrimesh Network
Management Dashboard for Ubuntu Linux!

[1] http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za
[2] http://swug.za.net
[3] http://www.open-mesh.net

Featuring:

* Powerful mesh network routing with B.A.T.M.A.N.
* Dynamic GIS visualization of your mesh on OpenStreetMap maps.
* Plan your network using the terrain elevation map.
* Visualize live health&traffic information for any mesh node.
* Keep inventory of your network devices.
* Monitor the health&usage of your Internet gateway.
* Monitor live network accounting information from pmacct.
* View network status & log messages in realtime.
* Customer management interface featuring FreeRADIUS support.
* Customer authentication featuring coova-chilli support.
* Online help and live chat support.
* Intelligent configuration assistance.
* Build and manage mesh networks even without an Internet
connection.
* Now supports the VillageTelco Mesh Potato.

Installation instructions live here:

http://code.google.com/p/afrimesh/wiki/Installation

The impatient & brave can try:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 50CFBA3E
sudo sh -c "echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/afrimesh/ppa/ubuntu hardy main >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install afrimesh-dashboard

Please request features and report your bugs:

http://code.google.com/p/afrimesh/issues

Help can usually be found on:

http://groups.google.com/group/afrimesh

#afrimesh on irc.freenode.net

The source is licensed under the New BSD License:

http://code.google.com/p/afrimesh

A live demo can be viewed at:

http://demo.afrimesh.org

Finally, this announcement would be incomplete without the ever
growing list of folk who have contributed to the development of
Afrimesh:

Chris Morris
Kobus Roux
Ajay Makan
George James
Johann Hugo
Sebastian Buettrich
Louis Coetzee
Dhiren Seetharam
Jonathan Mzengeza
Edwin Cowley
Cynthia Mlambo
Nkosinathi Msimango
David Ume
Steve Song
David Rowe
Elektra Aichele
David Carman

Thank you everyone!