26 Mar
2015
26 Mar
'15
6:23 p.m.
Hi Tom,
Thanks for the link,
Will have a look at it in morning and see how to pop it in the mikrotik and see if it
plays ball
Cheers,
Kevin
2E0LSR /P
Sent from Somewhere Rural with limited Cell Coverage!
Try HF or VHF/UHF better chances!
<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Tom Hayward
<esarfl(a)gmail.com> </div><div>Date:26/03/2015 18:10 (GMT+00:00)
</div><div>To: AMPRNet working group <44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu>
</div><div>Subject: Re: [44net] Gateways </div><div>
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Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Kevin <kevin(a)sidx.org.uk> wrote:
I just need to know now what needs to be setup on my
router which can then send out the RIP advertisement to the Internet and announce the
Subnets that
Im using MikroTik hardware which is based on the same logic and routabilities as Cisco
hardware
You might try my script:
https://github.com/kd7lxl/python-amprapi/#updaterospy
updateros.py reads the list of gateways and routes from the AMPR API
and translates that to Mikrotik commands. It simply automates the
creation and destructions of IPIP interfaces and static routes. I run
it against our routers via cron hourly on my desktop. It is not
capable of rip44.
Tom KD7LXL
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26 Mar
26 Mar
6:26 p.m.
New subject: Gateways
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Kevin <kevin(a)sidx.org.uk> wrote:
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for the link,
Will have a look at it in morning and see how to pop it in the mikrotik and see if it
plays ball
It runs via SSH, not something you "pop in the Mikrotik." You can run
it with -n -v to see what commands it will issue without committing
anything.
Tom KD7LXL
27 Mar
27 Mar
8:53 a.m.
New subject: Gateways
Hi Tom,
I¹m now looking at the link you sent in more detail,
If I¹m honest, I didn¹t realise that MikroTik had python in its OS -
python coding is not something I¹m as familiar with,
I know this may be a pain, but could you explain a little bit on how to
add these files into the back end and is there anything I need to edit in
the files (I know the settings.py need changing with my api details from
the portal) perhaps if its not too much trouble a bit of a walkthough?
Regards,
Kevin
2E0LSR (M6EMT) / MS0SIA
Consultant Wireless & Netwokring Engineer
MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCINE, UCWA, UEWA, CompTIA A+
On 26/03/2015 18:26, "Tom Hayward" <esarfl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Kevin <kevin(a)sidx.org.uk> wrote:
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for the link,
Will have a look at it in morning and see how to pop it in the mikrotik
and see if it plays ball
It runs via SSH, not something you "pop in the Mikrotik." You can run
it with -n -v to see what commands it will issue without committing
anything.
Tom KD7LXL
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3:58 p.m.
New subject: Gateways
On Mar 27, 2015 1:54 AM, "Kevin" <kevin(a)sidx.org.uk> wrote:
I¹m now looking at the link you sent in more detail,
If I¹m honest, I didn¹t realise that MikroTik had python in its OS -
python coding is not something I¹m as familiar with,
Mikrotik does not have Python in their OS. I found no way to process
data from a JSON API with Mikrotik scripting language, so this was
designed to run on a separate computer with Python.
I run it on my workstation. This is the same workstation I use to
configure the router manually, so it already has the required private
DSA key to log in to the router. This allows me to run the script via
cron without having to enter a password.
If you want a contained solution with no computers other than the
router, you could install an OpenWRT MetaRouter on your Mikrotik and
run the Python script in that. At this point you could also just use
rip44d on OpenWRT to manage the AMPR tunnels. I have not tried this.
I know this may be a pain, but could you explain a
little bit on how to
add these files into the back end and is there anything I need to edit in
the files (I know the settings.py need changing with my api details from
the portal) perhaps if its not too much trouble a bit of a walkthough?
First, create an API key at https://portal.ampr.org/profile.php
These steps should work for Ubuntu/Debian:
sudo apt-get install git-core python
git clone https://github.com/kd7lxl/python-amprapi.git
cd python-amprapi
vi settings.py # enter your AMPR username and API key
:wq
./updateros.py -v -n 192.168.1.1 # substitute your router IP
This will print the list of Mikrotik commands that are needed to add
the AMPR tunnels to your router. If you run it again without -n, these
commands will be sent to your router via SSH.
It may take a long time to run the first time. The script does not
invoke a shell in SSH, so each command (about 1500 of them, for 500
routes) is sent independently. You can cancel and restart without any
harm. It'll pick up where it left off last time.
Subsequent runs only execute a diff, so they will be very fast (unless
some catastrophe causes hundreds of AMPR gateways to be removed from
the portal).
Here's the actual line from my crontab that runs it on my router:
3 * * * * /home/tom/src/python-amprapi/updateros.py 44.24.221.1
Hope that helps.
Tom KD7LXL
4:39 p.m.
New subject: Gateways
Hello Tom et al.
On my Debian 7.7.0 I see this error:
root@deb:/opt/python-amprapi# ./updateros.py -v -n 192.168.0.102
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./updateros.py", line 20, in <module>
import amprapi
File "/opt/python-amprapi/amprapi.py", line 22, in <module>
import requests
ImportError: No module named requests
root@deb:/opt/python-amprapi#
Something is missing evidently...
According to portal.ampr.org API's info
the endpoint sould have name "encap".
Best regards.
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Tom - SP2L
(ex sp2lob)
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But it is more important to be nice!
5:53 p.m.
New subject: Gateways
Hello Tom et al.
Apparently there is something more missing:
root@deb:/opt/python-amprapi# ./updateros.py -v -n 192.168.0.102
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./updateros.py", line 180, in <module>
main()
File "./updateros.py", line 110, in main
encap = filter(None, map(filter_encap, get_encap()))
File "./updateros.py", line 41, in get_encap
ampr = amprapi.AMPRAPI()
File "/opt/python-amprapi/amprapi.py", line 72, in __init__
self.enforce_version()
File "/opt/python-amprapi/amprapi.py", line 78, in enforce_version
if not self.check_version():
File "/opt/python-amprapi/amprapi.py", line 75, in check_version
return self._api_version_minor == self.get('version')['version']
File "/opt/python-amprapi/amprapi.py", line 87, in get
return json.loads(r.json())
TypeError: 'unicode' object is not callable
root@deb:/opt/python-amprapi#
I have unicode installed... What else?
Best regards.
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(ex sp2lob)
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But it is more important to be nice!
6:15 p.m.
New subject: Gateways
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Tom SP2L <SP2L(a)wp.pl> wrote:
File "/opt/python-amprapi/amprapi.py",
line 87, in get
return json.loads(r.json())
TypeError: 'unicode' object is not callable
The version of python-requests in Wheezy is too old and incompatible.
(I'm sure you have this problem often running Debian stable.)
You can get a more up-to-date version using Python's package manager,
pip, instead of the OS package manager. Something like this...
sudo apt-get remove python-requests
sudo pip install requests
If you don't want pip to install it system-wide, you can use
virtualenv. I'll let you Google that on your own, as it's a special
case.
Tom KD7LXL
7:26 p.m.
New subject: Gateways
Hello Tom.
Many thanks for all info regarding Python and all suggestions as well.
Best regards.
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Tom - SP2L
(ex sp2lob)
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But it is more important to be nice!
10:25 p.m.
New subject: Gateways
On 27/03/15 19:15, Tom Hayward wrote:
If you don't want pip to install it system-wide,
you can use virtualenv.
Hello Tom et al.
virtualenv was perfect suggestion, Hi!
Now with Python 2.7 I started to play...
Due to some errors, needed to install paramiko,
pycrypto, ecdsa and bunch of dependent modules.
Then eventually amprapi.py did it's job nicely.
Best regards.
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Tom - SP2L
(ex sp2lob)
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It is nice to be important.
But it is more important to be nice!
5:55 p.m.
New subject: Gateways
Hi,
Using metarouter is a bit tricky, since OpenWRT is not quite stable in the
metarouter.
And it works only on mipsbe (and single core PPC, but that's history), so no
CCR or RB100AHx2.
So best try to use Toms method if it is satisfactory.
Another variant would be to add a Raspberry Pi or a Alixboard or some other
small factor device (instead of the metarouter) as an
encapsulator/decapsulator and inject the RIPv2 data into the router, for a
fully automatic setup (a device with a single ethernet interface will
suffice).
Marius, YO2LOJ
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Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 17:58
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Subject: Re: [44net] Gateways
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If you want a contained solution with no computers other than the
router, you could install an OpenWRT MetaRouter on your Mikrotik and
run the Python script in that. At this point you could also just use
rip44d on OpenWRT to manage the AMPR tunnels. I have not tried this.
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